Computational Social Science, Digital Methods and Big Data in Political Science: Week 5

In the fifth week of the course, we focus on how to load previously downloaded tweets in a MongoDB and how to run some descriptive analyses on these data with the PyMongo package in Python. The code examples for this week are based on parts of the MongoDB tutorial Getting Started and “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 5

Background Readings
Kyle Banker, Peter Bakkum, Shaun Verch, Douglas Garrett, and Tim Hawkins (2015). MongoDB in Action (2nd edition). Manning Publications.
Kristina Chodorow (2013). MongoDB: The Definitive Guide (2nd edition). O’Reilly.
Amol Nayak (2014). MongoDB Cookbook. Packt Publishing.
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.