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So that adds on to the level of usability. They are usually built in python scripting or Ruby or any of these really complicated programming languages that if you have no idea what you are doing, are quite complicated. But they are built - a lot of these programs are built by engineers and programmers and are not particularly user friendly as some of you might already know. Things like TwapperKeeper or The Archivist are some that might be familiar.
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They are generally free these open source tools.
I’ve been doing a lot of work on trying to find an open source tool that will allow us to strip data from WordPress or strip data from Twitter, or any of the social networking kind of tools. That is our goal for the next six to 12 months. How do we approach the analysis of this public space and what data is actually available to us through these tools? How do we clean up the data? How do we remove re-tweets? Do we actually keep re-tweets, for example? What data to keep and what data to remove? What are the processes involved and how can we develop an efficient and effective toolkit that people with no technology knowledge whatsoever can use effectively for this kind of data? That is our project. If you’ve ever looked at Twitter or Facebook or blogs, some of the data is quite, you know, sketchy to say the least. How does this impact on the data that you are retrieving and how do we validate the data collected? These are some of the things that we need to investigate. So you might not be able to get - if you want to track the geolocation of a certain network of people on Facebook, you’re not going to get that using an open source tool because Facebook will not allow it. These policies affect what data you get and what data you don’t get. So some of the questions that we have with this project is, what are the API, which stands for application programming interface, release policies of various social network tools and news aggregators? So what you will normally get using an open source program which I’ll talk about in a second, is the basic of the basic data, so the user name, what they’ve said, and maybe the date and time of that tweet or blog post. However there are limitations to what you can take from those sites, because companies like Twitter and Facebook actually have a monopoly on the data that they give out to people for free.
So I’ve already developed using a programming language called python, a social media data stripper that strips data from Facebook and Twitter and all those kind of other social media networks and blog sites. So that is our team.īasically I’m doing the tech analysis as you can call it. Now the project is a collaboration of Maureen Henninger, myself, Paul Scifleet from University of Sydney,, and has also come on board as a research assistant. It’s to contribute to typologies for understanding consumer perceptions of information privacy online, and gain a rich understanding of consumer perceptions of information privacy. So the aim of this project is to identify focal points of consumer information privacy that are shared across the principal agents in information privacy online: media, government, privacy advocates, web 2.0 et cetera. What we are doing, the project is basically investigating changing public perceptions of consumer privacy in the context of web 2.0 and the increasing role that new information services and social media have in management and use of consumer information.
So I’ve come on board as pretty much the tech advisor for this project.
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Even though that’s not my area of passion, I do have a lot of knowledge in technical software and developments. I’ve come on board as pretty much the technical expert. What we are looking at is a specific project that is using a program called which I’ll talk about more about in a second. Twitter seems to be the popular thing at the moment that everyone wants to grab data from. So I apologise in advance if I seem a little bit scattered.Īs part of this FASS eResearch collaboratory project that I’ve been working on for the last six months, I’ve also been involved in collaboration between UTS and University of Sydney in relation to looking at ways of scraping data from other sources other than Twitter. I was asked to give a presentation at the very last minute because we had a presenter who dropped out last night. My name’s Catherine Baird for those of you who weren’t here this morning. Transcript - Data Journalism: Dealing with Social Data Students with accessibility requirements.Short course and microcredential participants.International Studies and Social Sciences.
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