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":
Two steps
1. Creating a developer account
2. Creating an app
1. Creating a developer account
- Go to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps
- Press "Create an app"
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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
