Mining and Analyzing Social Media

Workshop for Social Science Research Masters

University of Amsterdam, 23 April 2019

Diliara Valeeva

What do we study?

  • Fake news
  • Political polarization
  • Racial/gender discourse
  • Collective action
  • .....

How do we get data?

  • Using applications
  • Using official API*

*Application Programming Interface

 Plan for the day

  • 10.30 - 11.15: Youtube
  • 11.15 - 11.30: Break
  • 11.30 - 12 15: Youtube/Twitter
  • 12.15 - 13.00: Lunch
  • 13.00 - 14.00: Twitter

Youtube

Youtube Data Tools

R notebook "Youtube.ipynb":

https://github.com/dvaleeva/masm2019

Twitter

Two steps

1. Creating a developer account

2. Creating an app

1. Creating a developer account

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Check your email

Congrats! You are a developer!

2. Creating an app

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In the Callback URL field,

enter: http://127.0.0.1:1410

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Done!

write down these keys and go to R

R notebook "Twitter.ipynb": https://github.com/dvaleeva/masm2019

What we did

  • Scraping data
  • Descriptive analysis
  • Text analysis

 

What is possible

  • Network analysis
  • Analysis of geolocations
  • Qualitative analysis

 

More materials

Social Media Research Toolkit

Observatory on Social Media

Mining and Analyzing Social Media-2019

By Diliara Valeeva

Mining and Analyzing Social Media-2019

The workshop "Mining and Analyzing Social Media" for Research Master Students in Social Sciences. University of Amsterdam, 25 April 2019.

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