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  • December 6, 2019

Setting up Your Computer to Use My Python Code for Downloading Twitter Data

November 24, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 6 Comments

I frequently get requests for how to download social media data in general, as well as for help on how to run code I have written to download and analyze the data I analyzed for a particular piece of research. Often, these requests are from people who are excited about doing social media research but […]

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Tag Cloud Tutorial

November 23, 2014 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

In this post I’ll provide a brief tutorial on how to create a tag cloud, as seen here. First, this assumes you have downloaded a set of tweets into an SQLite database. If you are using a different database please modify accordingly. Also, to get to this stage, work through the first 8 tutorials listed […]

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Your First Steps with Python: Part II — Four Ways to Run your Code

September 5, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 10 Comments

This is the second in a series of posts to get you up and running on Python. In the first post I showed you which version of Python to install, how to check that the installation succeeded, and how to type in and run your first simple Python command. In this tutorial I will show […]

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Your First Steps with Python: Part I — Running your First Python Code

September 4, 2014 by Gregory Saxton 9 Comments

For the beginning coder, every step involved in getting up and running the programming language presents a new (and potentially frustrating) learning experience. In a prior post I gave an overview of my preferred Python distributions and my general thoughts on how to approach learning Python. In this and subsequent posts I will walk you […]

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Python: Where to Start?

May 4, 2014 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

For the complete beginner, getting up and running in a new programming language can be a daunting task. I’ll try to simplify it here by walking you through the key steps. Choose a version of Python There is more than one version of the Python language. Most people choose between version 2.7 and 3.3. Go […]

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