Social media for data analysis

Date:

27/10/2017

Organised by:

University of Manchester

Presenter:

Mike Thelwall

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

cmist-courses@manchester.ac.uk 0161 2751980

Map:

View in Google Maps  (M13 9PL)

Venue:

Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester, Manchester

Description:

This course describes how to use free Windows software Mozdeh to gather tweets and to download comments on YouTube videos. The course will also describe simple methods to gain insights into the meaning of the downloaded texts and to identify patterns within the data.

You will learn to use the free Mozdeh Windows software to:

  • Gather tweets from a set of named users or tweets matching one or more keyword queries.
  • Gather comments on one or more YouTube videos.
  • Analyse the texts with simple big data methods: word association mining, gender, sentiment and time difference detection and association mining, time series graphs and networks of user interactions.
  • Analyse the texts with content analysis.

Cost:

£195 (or £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions).

Website and registration:

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Digital Social Research, Analysis of social media, Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Visual Data Analysis, Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Categorical data analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Mixed Methods Data Handling and Data Analysis, Mozdeh Windows , Social media , Twitter , YouTube , Text analysis

Related publications and presentations:

Digital Social Research
Analysis of social media
Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Visual Data Analysis
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Categorical data analysis
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Mixed Methods Data Handling and Data Analysis

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