Using Sentiment Analysis of Twitter

to Develop Strategies for

Library Data Sharing Partnerships

#cni14f

Sara Mannheimer

@saramannheimer

Scott W. H. Young

@hei_scott

Outline

Open Data

 “Sunlight is said to be the     best of disinfectants.”

                                      - Justice Louis Brandeis,                                                   as quoted by Barack Obama

Open data policies + portals by state

http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/08/state-open-data-policies-and-portals/

Before Open Data

“Over the next few years we have an astonishing opportunity to change and improve the way science is done.”

                           - Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery

Investigators are expected to share ... the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants. Grantees are expected to encourage and facilitate such sharing.

Data Underlying Published Research Results Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. The foundation will require that data underlying the published research results be immediately accessible and open. 

Joint Data Archiving Policy

 “Minimal Dataset:” The dataset used to reach   the conclusions drawn in the manuscript

Pilot Research Design

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis + Data Sharing

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Limitations & Biases

Social Media

Sampling Bias

Sentiment Analysis

Big Data

"Big" Data

Data at machine-speed and machine-scale,

with analysis through computation

“The ability to harvest the wealth of information contained in biomedical Big Data will advance our understanding of human health and disease.”

— NIH Big Data to Knowledge

“Numbers are seductive because they look like answers.”

— Nathan Jurgenson

Why is it important to investigate the ethics of social media (big) data collection and analysis?

“[The work] was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users agree prior to creating an account on Facebook, constituting informed consent for this research.”

— Authors of the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study

Consent

“This study is a scandal because it brought Facebook’s troubling practices into a realm—academia—where we still have standards of treating people with dignity and serving the common good.”

— James Grimmelmann

Ethical concerns for social media (big) data research

Takeaways + Next Steps

Thank you!

Sara Mannheimer

@saramannheimer

Scott W.H. Young

@hei_scott

Jim Espeland, Software Engineer

Kyle Steiner, Research Assistant

Research Team