Social Media and Social Science Lessons in R and Python Lessons

Social Media Data and Earth Systems Science

Humans are an important component of Earth Systems. Social media data, like twitter, can be integrated with earth science data to help you better understand the impacts that humans have on our environment, how humans are impacted by environmental change and how humans feel about these impacts. Learn how to use the R programming language to analyze Twitter data and address earth science questions. Check back for Python lessons!

Work With Twitter Social Media Data in R - An Introduction

This lesson will discuss some of the challenges associated with working with social media data in science. These challenges include working with non standard text, large volumes of data, API limitations, and geolocation issues.

last updated: 30 Mar 2020