This post is a brief, temporary attempt at pointing people in the right direction for a common task: downloading tweets sent by a …
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Your First Steps with Python: Part II — Four Ways to Run your Code
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 …
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Your First Steps with Python: Part I — Running your First Python Code
For the beginning coder, every step involved in getting up and running the programming language presents a new (and potentially …
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#ICA14 – Tag cloud of ICA 2014 Tweets
Word clouds are generally not all that helpful given how the words are taken out of their context (sentences). In certain …
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Python: Where to Start?
For the complete beginner, getting up and running in a new programming language can be a daunting task. I'll try to simplify it …
Slideshare Tutorial
One of the PhD students I work with, Weiai Xu, has put together an informative slideshow for how to download Twitter …
Why I Use Python for Academic Research
Academics and other researchers have to choose from a variety of research skills. Most social scientists do not add computer …
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How Organizations Use Social Media: Engaging the Public
The research I've done on organizations' use of social media suggests there are three main types of messages that organizations …
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Using Python to Grab Twitter User 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 …
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