[Air-L] Searching for Mentor: Twitter API//Data Collection

[Stuart Shulman]

We are happy to lend a hand and have mentored as well as sponsored many
hundreds perhaps even a few thousand academics over the years.

You or anyone else can write to help at discovertext.com for more information
or write directly to me.

Stu

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:29 PM Jakob Jünger <
jakob.juenger at uni-greifswald.de> wrote:

> Dear Heather,
>
> maybe you could use Facepager: https://github.com/strohne/Facepager
>
> The app is developed for people like you, to help learning how to use
> APIs for research purposes. It supports a lot of APIs, e.g. Facebook,
> Twitter, YouTube. You can use your own API keys if you want. It helps
> you with the rate limits. There is a wiki with some quick getting
> started tutorials and a Facebook group for further help:
> https://github.com/strohne/Facepager/wiki
>
> Disclosure: I am one of the developers of Facepager, but without any
> commercial interests.
>
> Cheers,
> Jakob
>
>
>
> Am 20.02.2019 um 17:31 schrieb Heather Walker:
> > Hello Esteemed Internet Researchers,
> >
> > My name is Heather Walker and I am a PhD candidate at the University of
> > Illinois at Chicago. For my dissertation project, I am taking a
> > netnographic approach looking at Twitter and Instagram data. I applied
> for
> > access to the Twitter API via their developer site, was approved, and now
> > have an access key. I've been trying to learn Python by taking free
> online
> > courses and watching a million youtube videos. However, I hit a snag
> every
> > time and usually can't figure out how to fix it.
> >
> > I also have been using DiscoverText (incredible tool), but have already
> > exceeded the data limit, making continued data collection there
> impossible.
> >
> > I am reaching out via this listserv to see if there are any lovely
> > researchers with experience using the Twitter API to aggregate data who
> may
> > be willing to mentor me? I am working on several manuscripts right now
> > using Twitter data, so can offer co-authorship through the partnership.
> My
> > interests and collected data thus far revolve around disability, rights,
> > access, and civic participation, diabetes cultural groups, social
> movements
> > using hashtags, and social movement hijacking.
> >
> > I am also hoping some of you might know about any potential United-States
> > based workshops that provide hands-on training using big-data digital
> > methods?
> >
> > Thank you for your consideration and shared resources.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Heather Walker
> >
> --
> Jakob Jünger
> University of Greifswald
> Institute of Political Scien
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Political+Scien&entry=gmail&source=g>ce and
> Communication Studies
>
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> 17487 Greifswald,
> Germany
>
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> Email: jakob.juenger at uni-greifswald.de
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>
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