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

[Marcelo Santos]

Dear Heather, I second Aletre’s post. Bruns, TCAT, tableau for analytics,
all accesible for academics.

The course at future learn is excellent.

Good luck!

El El mié, 20 de feb. de 2019 a las 15:16, Alette Schoon <A.Schoon at ru.ac.za>
escribió:

> 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
> > 1919 W. Taylor Street, Chicago IL
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