20121018 access "social feed manager"
DESCRIPTION
Slides from the brief talk I gave on the app we're developing at GW Libraries in Washington DC to help campus researchers study data from social media services like Twitter.TRANSCRIPT
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social feed managerdchud @ gwu edu
Access 2012 Montreal October 19 2012
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how do researchersstudy social media?
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by hand.
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•google reader
•copy and paste
• fold, spindle, mutilate
•excel
• ...eventually, SPSS or equiv
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whatever help
they can get
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it’s a lot of workfor not a lot of data
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(1000s of tweets)
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research opportunitiesare
endless
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colldev opportunitiesare
endless
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copy and pasteto excel
doesn’t scale
just ask any student assigned to do this!
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options?
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Twitter-licensed data providers:
DataSiftGnipTopsy
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what we’ve learned• friendly
•not cheap
•more than we need
•expensive
•still need tools to collect, process, etc.
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what researchers ask for
• specific users, keywords
• historic time periods
• basic values: user, date, text, counts
• 1000s, not 10000000s
• delimited files to import
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we can do some of thisfree
w/public API
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some we’ll haveto buy
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twitter api
•user timelines: up to 3200, plus new
•public streams: follow, track, geo, up to 3000/minute
• search
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user timelines
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public streams
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search
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social-feed-manager
•python/django
•user timelines, filter, sample, search
• simple display / export for user timelines
• free software, on github
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does thingswe can do
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what about...
•older data for busy users
•historic events
•keywords over time
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$$$$today
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...so start collectingtoday
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github.com /gwu-libraries /
social-feed-manager
@dchud || @liblaura