[Air-L] Please assist a grad student on using SNA to study pre- and post-disaster social networks? (Yosem Companys)

Fri Feb 22 05:58:37 PST 2019

It depends on the disaster. There are big collections of Twitter data on
some and this is one of the few areas historically where Twitter has
(minimally) sponsored research by making a handful of data grants, though
that era may now be over. We may have specific disaster Tweet collections
in DiscoverText that are notable and open for collaboration, but I am
unclear what pre-disaster data would consist of. Is that 100% of geolocated
Tweets in the hours before a disaster? That would be an interesting idea,
but a tough one to execute. You can write to help at discovertext.com if you
have specific disasters in mind; we will hunt for some sample data.
DiscoverText has sponsored many hundreds of academic research projects over
the last 9 years and disaster research is something we are more than happy
to sponsor in the future. There are disaster research examples here:

https://discovertext.com/publications

As for platform data access, LinkedIn never was and probably never will be
an option for data. Facebook collections may exist on the hard drives of
academics, but they are not necessarily easy to access or share.

The two main options for social network visualizations that I am familiar
with use .graphml formatted exports of Twitter data. NodeXL and Gephi offer
two quite different yet similar options. NodeXL is a lighter learning curve
and Gephi is a more powerful, open source tool.

With respect to using NodeXL or Gephi, we advise that users clean the data
first, removing all extraneous content, otherwise the confounding factors
in the visualization are potentially barriers to valid inferences.
DiscoverText enables data cleaning, search, n-grams, human labeling,
measurement tools, and machine-learning, among other options, all of which
which are all the most basic (minimal) steps you should take take to clean
the data before generating a .graphml file from Twitter data for a network
visualization. Raw Twitter data in a network viz is invariably misleading
and overwhelming. Clean and focused data makes the visualizations more
likely to support valid inferences.

~Stu

Stu Shulman <https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman>US Soccer C-Licensed Coach

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 6:36 PM Sugar, Benjamin N <bsugar at gatech.edu> wrote:

> 1.
>
>
> What is the best method for collecting pre- and post-disaster data on
> social media?
> 2. Is it possible to collect data not just on Twitter but also on all
> social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)?
>
> These two sort of go tot
>
>
>
> 3. Which social network analysis (SNA) tool has the easiest learning
> curve and is the easiest to use to analyze relational structures on social
> media?
>
> I truly appreciate your help and advice, and I look forward to hearing from
> you.
>
> Thanks,
> Yosem
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:54:28 -0300
> From: Cristhian Daniel <cdparra at gmail.com>
> To: Tatiana Silva <tatianamssilva at gmail.com>
> Cc: Katherine Sullivan <kathern.sullivan at gmail.com>,
> "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Searching for Mentor: Twitter API//Data
> Collection
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>
> Hi Heather,
>
> We have used Tweepy <https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy> last year to
> collect
> tweets before, during and after primaries and presidential elections in
> Paraguay. Our basic tweet collector, based on Tweepy, and which worked
> pretty well for us, is available here
> <
> https://github.com/ParticipaPY/politic-bots/blob/master/src/tweet_collector/twitter_api_manager.py
> >.
> You can learn more about the whole project and our approach to collect data
> in the project README and docs:
> https://github.com/ParticipaPY/politic-bots/.
> I am also happy to help you out if you have any questions.
>
> We also have a few informal publications about the role of Twitter in
> Paraguayan Elections, but they are in Spanish (primaries [1
> <
> https://medium.com/@jorgesaldivar/redes-sociales-en-procesos-electorales-89f2925966b6
> >
> ][2
> <
> https://medium.com/@jorgesaldivar/la-importancia-de-perfiles-influyentes-en-procesos-electorales-5b3fcf7614cd
> >],
> general elections[3
> <
> https://medium.com/@laconich1991/el-rol-de-twitter-en-las-elecciones-generales-de-paraguay-2018-93df1750c244
> >]).
> We are currently in the process of writing up our work, including our
> methodological approach and tools, to be published later on a journal TBD
> (BTW, suggestions are welcomed).
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:20 PM Tatiana Silva <tatianamssilva at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I would really like to keep up with whatever group that might be formed
> > from this conversation.
> > My main research is about the use of Twitter by museum visitors but I am
> > also interested in studying controversies.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tatiana M. S. Silva
> >
> >
> >
> > Em qui, 21 de fev de 2019 ?s 13:30, Katherine Sullivan <
> > kathern.sullivan at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> > > Good morning,
> > >
> > > I would love to join the subgroup as well! I'm currently working on my
> > > doctoral thesis pertaining to the use of social media by Canadian
> mayors
> > > and am attempting to use TwitteR, RFacebook and InstaR packages in R,
> but
> > > am having some issues with authentication.
> > >
> > > Thank you so much for this initiative!
> > >
> > > Katherine Sullivan
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:40 AM Radhika G <gradhika2012 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yay! I will
> > > >
> > > > Because I already went to github etc
> > > >
> > > > Thankyou!
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:37 AM Isabel Galvis <
> > > galvisi at uni.coventry.ac.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Go to GitHub - download the code you need =)
> > > > >
> > > > > Email me if you need help =)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ISABEL GALVIS, M.A.
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> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of isioma
> > > > chiluwa
> > > > > Sent: 21 February 2019 13:33
> > > > > To: Heather Walker <hgabel3 at uic.edu>
> > > > > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Searching for Mentor: Twitter API//Data
> > Collection
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear all
> > > > >
> > > > > I am also interested in joining this group. I am a PhD student with
> > > > > research interest in language of identity in online social
> > movements. I
> > > > > also have problems with retrieving and analysing data. I would also
> > > need
> > > > > this mentorship.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > >
> > > > > On Feb 20, 2019 17:32, "Heather Walker" <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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