Mining and Analyzing Social Media

Workshop for Social Science Research Masters

University of Amsterdam, 15 April 2020

Diliara Valeeva

Use existing tools

Scrape data yourself

How to get this data?

Use existing tools

How to get this data?

Youtube Data Tools

Go to https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/index.php

Find R code 'youtube_code.r' on Canvas

or at https://github.com/dvaleeva/masm2020

Scrape data yourself

How to get this data?

Scrape data from Twitter

1. Create a developer account

2. Create an app

1. Create a developer account

0. Create a Twitter account if you don't have it yet

1. Go to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps

2. Press "Apply" => "Apply for a developer account"

* make sure you have access to your email

* fill in this box with your own words

* fill in this box with your own words

Check your email

Congrats! You are a developer!

2. Create an app

Follow the link from your confirmation email

or

go to https://developer.twitter.com/en/account/get-started

If you don't have a website,

try to enter your social media profiles or other websites that are somehow related to you

In the Callback URL,

enter: http://127.0.0.1:1410

Confirm and go to 'Keys and tokens'

Done!

* save these keys in a safe space and go to R

Find R code "twitter_code.r" on Canvas

or at https://github.com/dvaleeva/masm2020

More materials

Social Media Research Toolkit

http://socialmediadata.org/social-media-research-toolkit/

Observatory on Social Media

http://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/

Next steps

• See 'Modules' in Canvas for materials

• Practice at home

• Ask me questions: 15-17 April