[Air-L] Twitter Data Collection Tools: Summer of the Responses:

[Gohar F. Khan]

Hello list members:

Thank you to those who provided great suggestions and insights.

Here is a summery of the responses. Most of the tools/applications lists
below are supposed to be capable of bulk Twitter data collection. Though I
haven't tested all, I found some very useful including DiscoverText,
NodeXL, Twitonomy, and Nexalogy.

1.* Twitter Data extraction applications (does not require programming
skills)*

   - DiscoverText: http://www.screencast.com/t/VKLqaekPz
   - Demographics Pro: http://www.demographicspro.com/
   - NodeXL: https://nodexl.codeplex.com/
   - Twitonomy: http://www.twitonomy.com/
   - RapidMiner:
   http://docs.rapidminer.com/studio/how-to/cloud-connectivity/twitter.html
   - KPI6: https://www.kpi6.com/
   - Talend:
   http://www.datalytyx.com/twitter-sentiment-analysis-using-talend/
   - KNIME: https://www.knime.org/blog/knime-twitter-nodes
   - Pentaho:
   http://www.patlaf.com/query-twitter-api-with-pentaho-pdi-kettle/
   - iScience Maps: http://maps.iscience.deusto.es/
   - Nexalogy: https://nexalogy.com/

2. *Tools/Scripts/Modules (require programming skills)*

   - Twarc: https://github.com/edsu/twarc
   - Twitter for Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter
   - getUserTimeline.py script by Prof. Libby:
   https://github.com/casmlab/user-timeline-tools
   - R's twitterR package:
   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf
   - Erik Michaels-Ober's Ruby gem 't': https://github.com/sferik/t

3. *Help Resources*

   - Twitter API documentation
      - tweets: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets;
      - users: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/users;
      - hashtags:
      https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/entities-in-twitter-objects.
   - Getting Twitter Data with R:
   http://www.r-bloggers.com/getting-started-with-twitter-in-r/
   - Example study on iScience Maps:
   http://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/papers/2011ReipsGaraizar_final.pdf


For the sake of folks not on this list, I also made it available here
<http://centreforsocialtech.com/analytical-tools/twitter-analytical-tools/>.

Thank you once again.

Regards,

GFK
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Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD
Adjunct Faculty & Research Adviser
Korea Advance Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Global Information and Telecommunication Technology Program (ITTP)
291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea.
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