Some political science journals now publish a dedicated article type for data. These publications — often referred as Data Notes bu the terminology does vary across journals — serve to highlight new datasets, document their construction, and support data sharing within the research community. For instance, Electoral Studies describes their data notes as follows:
These … are designed to promote, describe, and demonstrate the potential of data sources that could interest Electoral Studies readers.
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Update (November 2024): Since the publication of this blogpost, Twitter has revised its API access policies, and it is no longer freely accessible in the same way it once was. As a result, some of the workshop slides are now out of date.
Slides | All course materials
Earlier this month, I taught my two-day course on working with Twitter data in R, at the University of Lucerne. This was part of a Master’s Programme in Computational Social Science, LUMACSS.
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