I’ve been writing up the methodology section of my PhD, and in what is becoming a recurring theme in writing things up it’s caused me to go back over some things I read ages ago and get a fresh perspective on them. Today that fresh perspective is about what everybody else has been doing in… Continue reading Space is hard
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Cleaning up Twitter data in Excel for analysis
A lot of academic work that draws on tweets as primary data will use hashtag archives as the basis of their study. What’s nice about that is that you can use tools that capture data and present them to you in a usable manner (e.g. a CSV file). If you’re doing something a little different, like reviewing… Continue reading Cleaning up Twitter data in Excel for analysis