Social Media Data Analysis

Wenwen Li; Zhining Gu

doi:10.4324/9781003213277-29

Social Media Data Analysis

Wenwen Li, Zhining Gu

Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of (SGSUP)

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Social media has become an increasingly popular source of data to support social science research, as the data are easy to get, come from a large population across the world, and contain real-time response and opinion from the public. This lesson helps students gain computational skills necessary to retrieve and analyze social media data to answer interesting research questions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods
Subtitle of host publication	a Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	115-118
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003809555
ISBN (Print)	9781032100234
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213277-29
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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General Social Sciences

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