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  • February 16, 2019

Chapter 3 – Analyzing Twitter Data by Time Period

January 17, 2019 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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Chapter 2 – Aggregating and Analyzing Data by Twitter Account

January 17, 2019 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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Chapter 1 – Import Data, Select Cases and Variables, Save DataFrame

July 23, 2018 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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Downloading Tweets, Take III – MongoDB

October 28, 2017 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

Downloading Tweets, Take III – MongoDB

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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SQLite vs. MongoDB for Big Data

October 7, 2017 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

SQLite vs. MongoDB for Big Data

In my latest tutorial I walked readers through a Python script designed to download tweets by a set of Twitter users and insert them into an SQLite database. In this post I will provide my own thoughts on the pros and cons of using a relational database such as SQLite vs. a “noSQL” database such […]

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Downloading Tweets – Take II

September 25, 2017 by Gregory Saxton 3 Comments

Downloading Tweets – Take II

The goal of this post is to walk you through a Python script designed to download tweets by a set of Twitter users and insert them into an SQLite database. In a previous post I supplied a brief, temporary attempt at providing an overview of how to download tweets sent by a list of Twitter […]

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Using Your Twitter API Key

November 21, 2016 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

Below is an embedded version of an iPython notebook I have made publicly available on nbviewer. To download a copy of the code, click on the icon with three horizontal lines at the top right of the notebook (just below this paragraph) and select “Download Notebook.” I hope you find it helpful. If so, please […]

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Analyzing Big Data with Python PANDAS

October 23, 2015 by Gregory Saxton 6 Comments

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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Producing a Summary Statistics Table in iPython using PANDAS

May 29, 2015 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

Producing a Summary Statistics Table in iPython using PANDAS

Below is an embedded version of an iPython notebook I have made publicly available on nbviewer. To download a copy of the code, click on the icon with three horizontal lines at the top right of the notebook (just below this paragraph) and select “Download Notebook.” I hope you find it helpful. If so, please […]

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Python Tutorials for Downloading Twitter Data

November 24, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 16 Comments

Python Tutorials for Downloading Twitter Data

I often get requests to explain how I obtained the data I used in a particular piece of academic research. I am always happy to share my code along with my data. Having been through the learning process myself about 5 years ago, I understand the confusion and frustration that can go along with learning […]

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