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

[Alette Schoon]

Dear Heather

Axel Bruns from QUT in Australia does a very hands-on course on how to  
use T-CAT, a scraping tool using the live twitter api:
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDmiTcat
He combines the data with the Tableau visualisation tool, which  
provides great tools to turn your hashtags in your database into lines  
that rise and fall over time, rank your most prolific tweeters, etc.  
There is an online course you can do where Axel presents social media  
analytics - I'm not sure to what extent it overlaps with the T-CAT  
course.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-media-analytics
I attended the Digital Media Research Methods workshop QUT's Digital  
Media Research Methods Centre run every December - you should apply to  
attend next year, it is really very good.
https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2019-dmrc-summer-school/dmrcss19-workshops/

Best
Alette

Alette Schoon (PhD)
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
SOUTH AFRICA

Quoting Heather Walker <hgabel3 at uic.edu>:

> 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
>
> --
> *Heather Walker (Gabel), MS*
> Disability Studies Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)
> College of Applied Health Sciences
> University of Illinois, Chicago
> hgabel3 at uic.edu : 503.755.7673
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