YANG SONG

This is a study about data mining and visualization of Instagram Data. 6382 Instagram posts with the Location Tag #FORT WORTH WATER GARDEN were downloaded through Instagram API including photos and associated metadata such as username, date, hashtags, and captions.  Then all hashtags were analyzed through algorithms of social network connectivity and modularity. The degree of connection, the clustering, and the distance of the hashtag network were represented as nodes and edges. The hashtags coexisted in the same post were connected.