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

[Allen-Robertson, James]

Hi all,

I have quite a bit of experience collecting processing and analysing Twitter data at scale using Python, particularly for a couple of projects on Environmental activism on social media, and the Italian antivax debate. I’m also pretty handy with social network analysis, natural language processing and machine learning. I currently run a range of live Twitter monitors and so far our largest dataset is ~4million tweets.

Happy to help out in this developing sub-group where I can.


Dr James Allen-Robertson (FRSA)
Digital Sociologist
Department of Sociology
University of Essex

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My most recent article:
<https://twitter.com/minyall>Finding Trump with Neural Networks<https://towardsdatascience.com/finding-trump-with-neural-networks-4419468e0624> in Towards Data Science
When the President tweets, how do we know who is really behind the keyboard?


On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:32 AM Heather Walker <hgabel3 at uic.edu<mailto:hgabel3 at uic.edu>> wrote:

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

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*Heather Walker (Gabel), MS*
Disability Studies Ph.D. Can