Ever wondered how to get twitter data? I spent much of today listening to a great presentation on this subject by Derek Ruths at the 2012 Computational Social Science workshop hosted at IQSS and conveniently broadcast on the web. I'm not sure if video of the presentation will be available, but the code is all available and is extremely well done. For the most part, it worked "out of the box" while I was sitting there listening to the lecture, which is incredible. More incredible, it seemed like it worked for most of the people there. I've never seen a live scripting demonstration go so smoothly.

The code is up on the interwebs so I assume it is fair game. Go get yourself some tweets and get published in Science. (Really, there's a demo that shows you basically how to do that paper!!)

Posted by Richard Nielsen at May 30, 2012 7:39 PM