Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data
Wed, Oct 28 · 3:00 PM
Venue: Alexander Library Digital Humanities Lab
Address: Newark, NJ
City: Newark
Starts: Wed, Oct 28 · 3:00 PM 15:00
Ends: 2026-10-28T20:30:00+00:00
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Organizer: Alexander Library Digital Humanities Lab
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Category: Education
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Last verified: 2026-10-20
Social media data provide researchers with a real-time view into a wide variety of social and cultural topics. This workshop will include a gentle introduction to the R programming language and RStudio, the most commonly used integrated development environment for R. We will use the searchPosts endpoint of the Bluesky API to collect posts related to a keyword string of our choosing. We will then explore the resulting dataset using the tidyverse collection of packages in R. No experience…
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