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Slides from the brief talk I gave on the app we're developing at GW Libraries in Washington DC to help campus researchers study data from social media services like Twitter.
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social feed managerdchud @ gwu edu
Access 2012 Montreal October 19 2012
how do researchersstudy social media?
by hand.
•google reader
•copy and paste
• fold, spindle, mutilate
•excel
• ...eventually, SPSS or equiv
whatever help
they can get
it’s a lot of workfor not a lot of data
(1000s of tweets)
research opportunitiesare
endless
colldev opportunitiesare
endless
copy and pasteto excel
doesn’t scale
just ask any student assigned to do this!
options?
Twitter-licensed data providers:
DataSiftGnipTopsy
what we’ve learned• friendly
•not cheap
•more than we need
•expensive
•still need tools to collect, process, etc.
what researchers ask for
• specific users, keywords
• historic time periods
• basic values: user, date, text, counts
• 1000s, not 10000000s
• delimited files to import
we can do some of thisfree
w/public API
some we’ll haveto buy
twitter api
•user timelines: up to 3200, plus new
•public streams: follow, track, geo, up to 3000/minute
• search
user timelines
public streams
search
social-feed-manager
•python/django
•user timelines, filter, sample, search
• simple display / export for user timelines
• free software, on github
does thingswe can do
what about...
•older data for busy users
•historic events
•keywords over time
$$$$today
...so start collectingtoday
github.com /gwu-libraries /
social-feed-manager
@dchud || @liblaura