Jacob Groshek, Ph.D.
Ross Beach Chair of Emerging Media Research in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications

This presentation introduces the cloud-based Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit that allows researchers to collect Tweets off the STREAM API (the so-called “gardenhose” access to Twitter) and then process the data for network analysis and visualization in Gephi or Excel/SPSS (or similar). With this software, social data in the millions of units is quickly and easily sorted by algorithms to find users or items of importance on Twitter with a generally representative sample of content. The presentation will also cover analytic approaches to filtering data and identifying communities of users.

Sponsored by the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Department of Communication Studies, Department of Communications and Agricultural Education, and the Staley School of Leadership Studies