Computational Social Science, Digital Methods and Big Data in Political Science: Week 4

In the fourth week of the course, we focus on how to get all available messages by a specific user from the Twitter API and on how to convert date fields in a data format appropriate for import into MongoDB. The code examples for this week are based on work by Pascal Jürgens (University of Mainz) and parts of “Chapter 6: Mining Mailboxes: Analyzing Who’s Talking to Whom About What, How Often, and More” in Matthew A. Russell’s (2013) Mining the Social Web (2nd edition). (pp. 225-278).

Code Example Session 4

Background Readings
Matthew A. Russell (2013). “Chapter 6: Mining Mailboxes: Analyzing Who’s Talking to Whom About What, How Often, and More” in Mining the Social Web (2nd edition). pp. 225-278. O’Reilly.