Dear List, I am running a 5-day ACSPRI training course on Big Data Analysis for Social Scientists - University of Melbourne, 3-7 February, 2020. Early bird enrolment finishes midnight Wednesday 4th (Australian Eastern Standard Time). The course focuses on the collection and analysis of socially-generated network and text data from social media (Twitter, Reddit, YouTube) and also the WWW (hyperlink networks). We mainly use the R statistical software, with particular focus on: - vosonSML ("social media lab") R package (https://github.com/vosonlab/vosonsml) for network/text data collection - VOSON Dashboard R/Shiny web app (https://github.com/vosonlab/VOSONDash) for data collection (via vosonSML) and network/text analysis - igraph for network analysis - Text analysis using packages such as: tm, quanteda, RTextTools, wordcloud, tidytext and topicmodels Course material from previous related courses I have run are here: http://vosonlab.net/training_workshops The course is updated each year, so expect the 2020 course to be bigger and better! For booking, see here: https://www.acspri.org.au/summer-program-2020 -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, School of Sociology Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab<http://vosonlab.net> The Australian National University