[Air-L] Second simple question. (Ronald Rice)
Nicole Lemire Garlic
nlgarlic at temple.edu
Mon Sep 7 08:42:28 PDT 2020
Hello Ronald,
As Maurice mentioned, the R tuber package can easily pull the lists of videos from YouTube. There are vectorized and loop-based methods for this. Feel free to email me if you’d like some sample R scripts.
Nikki
Nicole Lemire Garlic
Temple University
Klein College of Media & Communication
nlgarlic at temple.edu
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> 1. First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
> organizations? (Ronald Rice)
> 2. Second simple question. (Ronald Rice)
> 3. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow ProDem Protest and
> Democracy, City, University of London (Mercea, Dan)
> 4. Re: First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
> organizations? (Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice))
> 5. Re: First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
> organizations? (Shulman, Stu)
> 6. Re: Second simple question. (Jakob J?nger)
> 7. Re: First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
> organizations? (Ed Summers)
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> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 16:46:42 -0700
> From: Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>
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> Subject: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts
> for organizations?
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> Hi folks. This is an incredibly simple question, and I told my colleagues
> that I was sure someone (probably many) on AoIR knows the answer to this.
> I have a study with 2000 organizations (and their official names) and wish
> to find out their main twitter account. Twitter has a public directory,
> but it's browse only. I'm sure a quick script could take the table of org
> names, apply it to some aspect of a twitter API or twitter database and
> return a list. But I'm not trained in that really cool and powerful set of
> approaches. However, I'm also sure there is in fact already existing a
> twitter directory where you could enter the organization name and get the
> account. The paleolithic approach is to search each of the 2000 websites
> (which we have) to see if there's a twitter account posted; or worse, type
> the org name and "twitter" in Google search. Anyone have a suggestion?
> Thanks, so much, in advance.
> --
> Ronald E. Rice
> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
> Department of Communication
> 4127 SS&MS Bldg
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
> 805-893-8696; rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
> https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
> [image: UC Santa Barbara]
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> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 16:48:54 -0700
> From: Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>
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> Hi again. Another simple question which for sure there's a simple solution.
> I'd like to get the number of YouTube videos posted by each of those 2000
> organizations (not mentions of those organizations in YouTube videos), say
> for a given month. Any suggestions?
> Thanks, in advance.
> --
> Ronald E. Rice
> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
> Department of Communication
> 4127 SS&MS Bldg
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
> 805-893-8696; rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
> https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
> [image: UC Santa Barbara]
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> Subject: [Air-L] Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow ProDem Protest and
> Democracy, City, University of London
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> Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Permanent with funding for 24 months
>
> Project: ProDem - Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements, and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe
>
> Department: Sociology, City, University of London
>
> Closing Date: 20 September 2020
>
> The Department of Sociology at City, University of London seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work alongside Dr Dan Mercea, Co-Principal Investigator on the project "ProDem - Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements, and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe". The project aims to comparatively assess the medium and long-term effects of the triple interaction between citizens, social movements, and movement parties in 6 European countries. The position, available for two years, is funded through an award by the Volkswagen Stiftung.
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> Responsibilities
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> The key responsibilities of the role will involve assisting the principal investigator in designing a cross-national survey to be commissioned to an external pollster.
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> The appointed candidate will be involved in writing up the research findings together with the principal investigator and other project members, and reporting them in conference proceedings and presentations and in high-ranked academic journals.
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> The successful candidate will have, or be about to be awarded, a PhD in political science, sociology, communication studies or a related social science discipline, have a good command of advanced statistical analysis and survey design as well as an interest in civic or political participation, social movements, political parties, digital or broadcasting media, and a developing publication record.
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> They will be able to demonstrate knowledge of advanced statistical analysis and survey design skills, as well as a developing publication record and the ability to conduct literature reviews and relevant background research.
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> Closing date: 11:59pm, 20th September 2020
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 10:08:27 +0000
> From: "Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice)" <m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl>
> To: Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>, AoIR-L
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter
> accounts for organizations?
> Message-ID: <1599300507263.1712 at maw.ru.nl>
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> Hi Ronald,
>
> yes it can be done, using R and the package rtweet. As for the YouTube question in the other, a similar approach could be done with R and the package Tuber. It probably needs a "do for" loop. Not sure rtweet (beware, technical lingo ahead) is vectorized for this problem.
> A loop will take some time though, given the large number of organizations. Furthermore, because one query will return multiple results, some semi-manual evaluation needs to take place to asses which account is the actual account.
> But, anyone with some experience with R could do it.
> Hope that herlps.
>
> best regards
> Maurice
>
> ________________________________________________
> Maurice Vergeer
> www.mauricevergeer.nl
>
> ________________________________________________
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> ________________________________________
> Van: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> namens Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>
> Verzonden: zaterdag 5 september 2020 01:46
> Aan: AoIR-L
> Onderwerp: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for organizations?
>
> Hi folks. This is an incredibly simple question, and I told my colleagues
> that I was sure someone (probably many) on AoIR knows the answer to this.
> I have a study with 2000 organizations (and their official names) and wish
> to find out their main twitter account. Twitter has a public directory,
> but it's browse only. I'm sure a quick script could take the table of org
> names, apply it to some aspect of a twitter API or twitter database and
> return a list. But I'm not trained in that really cool and powerful set of
> approaches. However, I'm also sure there is in fact already existing a
> twitter directory where you could enter the organization name and get the
> account. The paleolithic approach is to search each of the 2000 websites
> (which we have) to see if there's a twitter account posted; or worse, type
> the org name and "twitter" in Google search. Anyone have a suggestion?
> Thanks, so much, in advance.
> --
> Ronald E. Rice
> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
> Department of Communication
> 4127 SS&MS Bldg
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
> 805-893-8696; rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
> https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
> [image: UC Santa Barbara]
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> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:42:19 -0400
> From: "Shulman, Stu" <stu at texifter.com>
> To: "Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice)" <m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl>
> Cc: Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>, AoIR-L
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter
> accounts for organizations?
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> I would add that Maurice points to the non-trivial task of disambiguation
> when an organization name overlaps terms in common usage. For example,
> United Airlines is an organization, but it is most commonly referred to as
> United. Manchester United is a very popular football organization, most
> often referred to as United. The list of other widespread uses of this
> common organization name sums up the disambiguation problem. It can be done
> with training and machine-learning, but not for 2000 terms unless you have
> an army of workers and lots of money. That suggests a second point,
> essentially that the practical steps required to gather data for 2000
> organizations over time and remain compliant with rate and query limits
> would be daunting. You might consider trying the task with 5
> organizations to assess the challenge of performing the task at scale.
> Finally, from the view of qualitative research, depending on your end
> goals, you may not need such a huge number of organizations to reach
> saturation during analysis. That is, say you looked at 50 organizations and
> then noticed on 51-60 that you were not learning much you had not already
> learned. That is saturation.
>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 6:08 AM Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice) <
>> m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ronald,
>>
>> yes it can be done, using R and the package rtweet. As for the YouTube
>> question in the other, a similar approach could be done with R and the
>> package Tuber. It probably needs a "do for" loop. Not sure rtweet (beware,
>> technical lingo ahead) is vectorized for this problem.
>> A loop will take some time though, given the large number of
>> organizations. Furthermore, because one query will return multiple results,
>> some semi-manual evaluation needs to take place to asses which account is
>> the actual account.
>> But, anyone with some experience with R could do it.
>> Hope that herlps.
>>
>> best regards
>> Maurice
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>> Maurice Vergeer
>> www.mauricevergeer.nl
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Van: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> namens Ronald Rice <
>> rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>
>> Verzonden: zaterdag 5 september 2020 01:46
>> Aan: AoIR-L
>> Onderwerp: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
>> organizations?
>>
>> Hi folks. This is an incredibly simple question, and I told my colleagues
>> that I was sure someone (probably many) on AoIR knows the answer to this.
>> I have a study with 2000 organizations (and their official names) and wish
>> to find out their main twitter account. Twitter has a public directory,
>> but it's browse only. I'm sure a quick script could take the table of org
>> names, apply it to some aspect of a twitter API or twitter database and
>> return a list. But I'm not trained in that really cool and powerful set of
>> approaches. However, I'm also sure there is in fact already existing a
>> twitter directory where you could enter the organization name and get the
>> account. The paleolithic approach is to search each of the 2000 websites
>> (which we have) to see if there's a twitter account posted; or worse, type
>> the org name and "twitter" in Google search. Anyone have a suggestion?
>> Thanks, so much, in advance.
>> --
>> Ronald E. Rice
>> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
>> Department of Communication
>> 4127 SS&MS Bldg
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
>> 805-893-8696; rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
>> https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
>> [image: UC Santa Barbara]
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> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 13:53:28 +0200
> From: Jakob J?nger <jakob.juenger at uni-greifswald.de>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org, Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>, AoIR-L
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Second simple question.
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> Dear Ronald,
> both of your questions can be solved using Facepager, see the getting started tutorials on the wiki: https://github.com/strohne/Facepager
> Best
> Jakob
>
> Am 5. September 2020 01:48:54 MESZ schrieb Ronald Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>:
>> Hi again. Another simple question which for sure there's a simple
>> solution.
>> I'd like to get the number of YouTube videos posted by each of those
>> 2000
>> organizations (not mentions of those organizations in YouTube videos),
>> say
>> for a given month. Any suggestions?
>> Thanks, in advance.
>> --
>> Ronald E. Rice
>> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
>> Department of Communication
>> 4127 SS&MS Bldg
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
>> 805-893-8696; rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
>> https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
>> [image: UC Santa Barbara]
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
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> --
> Jakob J?nger
> University of Greifswald
> Institute of Political Science and Communication Studies
>
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> 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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> Phone : +49 3834 420 3444 or +49 173 860 8056
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> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 15:01:20 -0400
> From: Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter
> accounts for organizations?
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> As others have pointed out, the idea of automating the organization name
> -> twitter account lookup has all sorts of potential failure modes.
> Nevertheless, as a little experiment I thought it might be interesting
> to see if it were possible to automate this little heuristic:
>
> 1. Search for the organization on Wikipedia.
> 2. Look in the Wikipedia article for the "official website" link.
> 3. Look for a Twitter account on the organization's homepage.
>
> I gave it a try in a Jupyter notebook [1] and wrote a few words about it
> [2] if you want to take a look. Of course this approach relies entirely
> on there being a Wikipedia article in the first place. It's basically a
> house of cards waiting to fall down :-) But if you want me to try
> running it on your list we could give it a try.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1]
> https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1OfKcSrwm3Q1VaLIiply5zz6cCDX_QdFJ?usp=sharing
> [2] https://inkdroid.org/2020/09/05/organizations-on-twitter/
>
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