SHORT COURSES: Social Media for Data Analysis
| Dates: | 23 November 2018 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Course |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| How much: | £195
/ £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Mike Thelwall |
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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.
Price: £195
Concessions: £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions
Speaker
Mike Thelwall
Role: Professor of data science
Organisation: University of Wolverhampton
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Basement Lab
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
