#Discovery of the Higgs Boson: A Social Analysis
@pfacheris and @cjubb39 are analyzing the Twitter reaction to the announcement of the particle with the features of the Higgs Boson on July 4th 2012.
Specifically, we are analyzing relevant mentions, retweets, and replies. We attempt to use this information to model the underlying social network of followers.
The data sets were obtained from Stanford SNAP on December 22 2014. For posterity, the the data will be accessible in compressed form at www.cs.columbia.edu/~ecj2122/social_higgs/