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Python Data Analytics Tutorials

March 20, 2018 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

The bulk of my research involves some degree of ‘Big Data’ — such as datasets with a million or more tweets. Getting these data prepped for analysis can involve massive amounts of data manipulation — anything from aggregating data to the daily or organizational level, to merging in additional variables, to generating data required for […]

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Filed Under: Big Data, Featured, jupyter_notebook, pandas, research, Twitter

Downloading Tweets, Take III – MongoDB

October 28, 2017 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

In this tutorial I walk you through how to use Python and MongoDB to download tweets from a list of Twitter users. This tutorial builds on several recents posts on how to use Python to download Twitter data. Specifically, in a previous post I showed you how to download tweets using Python and an SQLite […]

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Filed Under: Big Data, Featured, python, Twitter Tagged With: Big Data, Database, MongoDB, Programming, python, social media, socialmedia, tutorial, Twitter

Does Twitter Matter?

April 28, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 1 Comment

Twitter is not the Gutenberg Press. The ‘Big Data’ revolution is over-hyped. Nevertheless, Twitter is significant in a number of ways: For identifying trends. For rapid, near real-time dissemination of news. It has been used to track the progression of the flu and other infectious diseases. It has played a mobilizational role in the Arab […]

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Establishing a Presence: Advice for PhD Students

April 27, 2014 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

Being Director of Graduate Studies gives me plenty of time to reflect on what I’d like students to get out of graduate education. For budding academics, you have all likely heard (countless times!) that the ultimate “deliverable” is high-quality journal articles. Of this there is little doubt — at least in the fields I’m familiar […]

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Why I Use Python for Academic Research

April 24, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 12 Comments

Academics and other researchers have to choose from a variety of research skills. Most social scientists do not add computer programming into their skill set. As a strong proponent of the value of learning a programming language, I will lay out how this has proven to be useful for me. A budding programmer could choose […]

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How Organizations Use Social Media: Engaging the Public

April 22, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 1 Comment

The research I’ve done on organizations’ use of social media suggests there are three main types of messages that organizations send on social media: informational, community-building, and “action” (promotional & mobilizational) messages. Each type constitutes a different way of engaging with the intended audience: Informational messages serve to inform — about the organization’s activities or […]

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About Me

Associate Professor of accounting at the Schulich School of Business. Pythonista. Technology fan. Coffee lover. Here I share my insights into the role and effects of technology -- especially Big Data and social media -- on the flow of information to and from organizations. I also post tutorials and documentation on how to use Python for capturing, processing, analyzing and visualizing social media data. #BigData #nonprofits #accounting #information #communication #CSR #socialmedia #dataanalytics More about me.

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Python Data Analytics Tutorials

The bulk of my research involves some degree of 'Big Data' … [Read More...]

Downloading Tweets, Take III – MongoDB

In this tutorial I walk you through how to use Python and … [Read More...]

Does Twitter Matter?

Twitter is not the Gutenberg Press. The 'Big Data' … [Read More...]

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Schulich School of Business
York University
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