I'm definitely not up on the coding aspect of it, but for my dissertation research I found Reyerson University's Social Media Lab and their list of free social media scraping resources immensely helpful: http://socialmediadata.org/social-media-research-toolkit/ Liz Lane, Ph.D. Assistant Professor | Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication program Department of English The University of Memphis 427 Patterson Hall Memphis, TN 38152 <http://www.memphis.edu/emailsignatures/emailsignaturemac.php> etlane.com <http://www.etlane.com/> etlane@memphis.edu <https://www.facebook.com/uofmemphis> <https://twitter.com/uofmemphis> <https://instagram.com/uofmemphis> On 2/20/19, 12:16 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Alette Schoon" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of A.Schoon@ru.ac.za> wrote: Dear Heather Axel Bruns from QUT in Australia does a very hands-on course on how to use T-CAT, a scraping tool using the live twitter api: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDmiTcat He combines the data with the Tableau visualisation tool, which provides great tools to turn your hashtags in your database into lines that rise and fall over time, rank your most prolific tweeters, etc. There is an online course you can do where Axel presents social media analytics - I'm not sure to what extent it overlaps with the T-CAT course. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-media-analytics I attended the Digital Media Research Methods workshop QUT's Digital Media Research Methods Centre run every December - you should apply to attend next year, it is really very good. https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2019-dmrc-summer-school/dmrcss19-workshops/ Best Alette Alette Schoon (PhD) School of Journalism and Media Studies Rhodes University SOUTH AFRICA Quoting Heather Walker <hgabel3@uic.edu>: > Hello Esteemed Internet Researchers, > > My name is Heather Walker and I am a PhD candidate at the University of > Illinois at Chicago. For my dissertation project, I am taking a > netnographic approach looking at Twitter and Instagram data. I applied for > access to the Twitter API via their developer site, was approved, and now > have an access key. I've been trying to learn Python by taking free online > courses and watching a million youtube videos. However, I hit a snag every > time and usually can't figure out how to fix it. > > I also have been using DiscoverText (incredible tool), but have already > exceeded the data limit, making continued data collection there impossible. > > I am reaching out via this listserv to see if there are any lovely > researchers with experience using the Twitter API to aggregate data who may > be willing to mentor me? I am working on several manuscripts right now > using Twitter data, so can offer co-authorship through the partnership. My > interests and collected data thus far revolve around disability, rights, > access, and civic participation, diabetes cultural groups, social movements > using hashtags, and social movement hijacking. > > I am also hoping some of you might know about any potential United-States > based workshops that provide hands-on training using big-data digital > methods? > > Thank you for your consideration and shared resources. > > Cheers! > > Heather Walker > > -- > *Heather Walker (Gabel), MS* > Disability Studies Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) > College of Applied Health Sciences > University of Illinois, Chicago > hgabel3@uic.edu : 503.755.7673 > 1919 W. Taylor Street, Chicago IL > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/