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Exploring Engineering Students’ College Experiences Using Social Media Monitoring Tool Radian6 Xin Chen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu Ph.D, Krishna Madhavan Ph.D Purdue University {chen654, mihaela, cm}@purdue.edu

Mining Twitter to Understand Engineering Students' Experiences

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This is a presentation at ASEE2012, San Antonio, Texas. Mining Twitter data to understand engineering students learning experiences. This presentation contains the qualitative research part. An updated version of this project with large-scale data mining (using classification and detection algorithm to identify potentially at-risk students) is published in this paper. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~chen654/pub/XinChen_etal_IEEETrans_tlt-cs_Mining_Twitter.pdf

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Exploring Engineering Students’ College Experiences Using Social Media Monitoring Tool Radian6

Xin Chen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu Ph.D, Krishna Madhavan Ph.DPurdue University

{chen654, mihaela, cm}@purdue.edu

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The story begins with:

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The story begins with:

Social Media Proliferation

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The story begins with:

Social Media Proliferation

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The story begins with:

Social Media Proliferation

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Data Deluge

The story begins with:

Image: http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/building-digital-libraries-to-contain-the-data-deluge.html

Social Media Proliferation

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What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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What insights do we gain from user generated data?

Brand Monitoring

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What insights do we gain from user generated data?

Brand Monitoring

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What insights do we gain from user generated data?

Brand Monitoring

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What insights do we gain from user generated data?

Brand Monitoring

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Brand Monitoring

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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Brand Monitoring

Event Monitoring

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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Brand Monitoring

Event Monitoring

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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Brand Monitoring

Event Monitoring

Disaster Responses

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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Brand Monitoring

Event Monitoring

Disaster Responses

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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Brand Monitoring

Event Monitoring

Disaster Responses

Network Analysis

What insights do we gain from user generated data?

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How does higher education use social media data?

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

Mostly Number Counting, No Content Analysis

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

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How does higher education use social media data?

The State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Ed, Survey by Higher Ed Experts, July 2011

Mostly for Marketing, Not Directly Related to Current Students

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Methods

Collect web content relevant to engineering students to understand their college experiences

Strategy

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Methods

Collect web content relevant to engineering students to understand their college experiences

Strategy

Relevant vocabulary is undefined; time span is undefined.

Challenge

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Methods

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Iterative process of defining keywords combination for data retrieval using Radian6

Methods

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Iterative process of defining keywords combination for data retrieval using Radian6

Oct. 31st -- Nov. 30th, 2011Keywords combination: 116 tweets#engineeringProblems: 667 tweets

Methods

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Iterative process of defining keywords combination for data retrieval using Radian6

Oct. 31st -- Nov. 30th, 2011Keywords combination: 116 tweets#engineeringProblems: 667 tweets

Two stages of content analysis

Methods

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Results

1 Sacrifice and Negative Feelings

3 Gender and Other Minorities

4 Engineer Stereotypes and Identity Formation

2 Issues with Classes, Professors, Homework, and Exams

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The results: 4 major themes

1 Sacrifice and Negative Feelings

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The results: 4 major themes

1 Sacrifice and Negative Feelings

“Which one of does not belong: coloring eggs, hunting for eggs, new dog, time with my mommy, Easter feast, studying?”

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The results: 4 major themes

1 Sacrifice and Negative Feelings

“Which one of does not belong: coloring eggs, hunting for eggs, new dog, time with my mommy, Easter feast, studying?”

“I’ve got 482 followers! That’s 480 more friends than I have in real life! Thanks for being there for me mom and dad!”

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The results: 4 major themes

1 Sacrifice and Negative Feelings

“Which one of does not belong: coloring eggs, hunting for eggs, new dog, time with my mommy, Easter feast, studying?”

“I’ve got 482 followers! That’s 480 more friends than I have in real life! Thanks for being there for me mom and dad!”

“Is it bad that before I started studying for my tests today that I considered throwing myself in front of a moving car??”

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The results: 4 major themes

2 Issues with Classes, Professors, Homework, and Exams

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The results: 4 major themes

“Learning more from a hick on YouTube than from my professor.”

2 Issues with Classes, Professors, Homework, and Exams

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The results: 4 major themes

“Learning more from a hick on YouTube than from my professor.”

“I’ve never been so happy to make a 50 on a test! Beat the class average by over 20 points.”

2 Issues with Classes, Professors, Homework, and Exams

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The results: 4 major themes

“Learning more from a hick on YouTube than from my professor.”

“I’ve never been so happy to make a 50 on a test! Beat the class average by over 20 points.”

“Would it kill him to just put one problem on the test that we’ve actually seen before?”

2 Issues with Classes, Professors, Homework, and Exams

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The results: 4 major themes

3 Gender and Other Minorities Issues

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The results: 4 major themes

“Finally talked to a girl today!!! ...It was Siri.”

3 Gender and Other Minorities Issues

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The results: 4 major themes

“Trying to find a girls bathroom in an engineering building”

“Finally talked to a girl today!!! ...It was Siri.”

3 Gender and Other Minorities Issues

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The results: 4 major themes

“Trying to find a girls bathroom in an engineering building”

“Finally talked to a girl today!!! ...It was Siri.”

3 Gender and Other Minorities Issues

“85 kids leaving the classroom before mine…of those 85 four are girls. Engineers math class #Stereotypical”

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The results: 4 major themes

“Trying to find a girls bathroom in an engineering building”

“Finally talked to a girl today!!! ...It was Siri.”

3 Gender and Other Minorities Issues

“I get a B- on my public speech because I talked about The National Society Of Black Engineers.”

“85 kids leaving the classroom before mine…of those 85 four are girls. Engineers math class #Stereotypical”

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The results: 4 major themes

4 Engineer Stereotypes and Identity Formation

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The results: 4 major themes

4 Engineer Stereotypes and Identity Formation

“I am f***ing studying engineering but who am I really? A nerd!!! Dawg a nerd! No one looks at engineers as special alight! Read that!”

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The results: 4 major themes

4 Engineer Stereotypes and Identity Formation

“I am f***ing studying engineering but who am I really? A nerd!!! Dawg a nerd! No one looks at engineers as special alight! Read that!”

“Professor just called us nerds. Every room I go in it smells like nerd...strong.”

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The results: 4 major themes

4 Engineer Stereotypes and Identity Formation

“I am f***ing studying engineering but who am I really? A nerd!!! Dawg a nerd! No one looks at engineers as special alight! Read that!”

“Professor just called us nerds. Every room I go in it smells like nerd...strong.”

“I hate having class in the Engineering building. Engineers don’t shower”

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Implications and Future works

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Implications and Future works

1 Research and Policy Implications

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Implications and Future works

1 Research and Policy Implications

2 Social Support, Community Building

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Implications and Future works

1 Research and Policy Implications

2 Social Support, Community Building

3 Social Media Analytics Tool for Education

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Are these Twitter users building a community?

Partial #engineeringProblems Network based on Mentions, Replies, and Follows

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Questions ?

Xin Chen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu Ph.D, Krishna Madhavan Ph.DPurdue University

{chen654, mihaela, cm}@purdue.edu