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Downloading Tweets by a List of Users

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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October 26, 2014
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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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May 26, 2014
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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 …

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Slideshare Tutorial

One of the PhD students I work with, Weiai Xu, has put together an informative slideshow for how to download Twitter …

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April 24, 2014
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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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April 24, 2014
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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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April 22, 2014
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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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April 21, 2014
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Downloading Tweets, Take III – MongoDB

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Does Twitter Matter?

Twitter is not the Gutenberg Press. The 'Big Data' …

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