Social Media for Data Analysis
Date:
23/11/2018
Organised by:
The University of Manchester
Presenter:
Mike Thelwall
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
CMI Short Courses
cmi-shortcourses@manchester.ac.uk
0161 2751980
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.
Objectives
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 (£140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions)
Website and registration:
https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Analysis of existing survey data, Digital Social Research, Analysis of social media
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