#  Do you haz teh (twitter) codez? 

 





May 30, 2012

 

 

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](http://events.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/2858) hosted at IQSS and conveniently [broadcast on the web](http://video.isites.harvard.edu/liveVideo/liveView.do?name=Comp_Soc_Science). I'm not sure if video of the presentation will be available, but the [code](http://networkdynamics.org/events/css-2012/) 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](http://networkdynamics.org/events/css-2012/) so I assume it is fair game. Go get yourself some tweets and [get published in *Science*](/sss/archives/2011/09/tweeting_how_yo.shtml). (Really, there's a demo that shows you basically how to do that paper!!)

Posted by [Richard Nielsen](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/richard-nielsen-1/) at May 30, 2012 7:39 PM



 

 

 



 

 

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