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Analyzing Big Data with Python PANDAS

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This is a series of iPython notebooks for analyzing Big Data — specifically Twitter data — using Python’s powerful PANDAS (Python Data Analysis) library. Through these tutorials I’ll walk you through how to analyze your raw social media data using a typical social science approach. The target audience is those who are interested in covering […]

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Establishing a Presence: Advice for PhD Students

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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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Gregory D. Saxton
331 Baldy Hall, Dept. of Communication
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY 14260
gdsaxton@buffalo.edu

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