Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Code Snippets
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Social Media Matters to the Social Sciences
- 2 Getting Started with Social Media Data
- 3 Content Analysis of Social Media Data
- 4 Geospatial Analysis of Social Media Data
- 5 Network Analysis of Social Media Data
- 6 The Ethics of Using Social Media Data
- References
- Index
2 - Getting Started with Social Media Data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Code Snippets
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Social Media Matters to the Social Sciences
- 2 Getting Started with Social Media Data
- 3 Content Analysis of Social Media Data
- 4 Geospatial Analysis of Social Media Data
- 5 Network Analysis of Social Media Data
- 6 The Ethics of Using Social Media Data
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces the building blocks of an infrastructure for collecting social media data. It includes a summary of what data is available via Twitter, and how we can best structure a collection system in general for any number of social science applications. In addition, it walks through how to collect a worldwide sample of all posted tweets in real time, along with database and compression tools for ensuring that the infrastructure can be used for long-term data collection projects encompassing millions of data points.
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- Social Media as Social Science Data , pp. 10 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022