The following list provides links to the slides and code used in the guided coding sessions. The solutions to the challenges will be made available through RStudio Server.
SLIDES: Introduction to social media research
Introduction to RMarkdown and Setup (.Rmd file)
Lists, Functions, and Loops (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Web scraping
Scraping tables (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 1 (.Rmd file)
Scraping unstructured data from the web (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 2 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Social media data
Collecting Twitter data from the Streaming API (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 3 (.Rmd file)
Collecting Twitter data from the REST API (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 4 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Discovery in social media text
Discovery in social media text (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 5 (.Rmd file)
Topic models (.Rmd file)
(Advanced) topic models (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 6 (.Rmd file)
SLIDES: Querying large-scale online datasets with SQL and Google BigQuery
Basics of SQL queries (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 7 (.Rmd file)
Querying multiple tables. Grouping and aggregating operations. (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 8 (.Rmd file)
Introduction to Google BigQuery (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 9 (.Rmd file)
Analyzing a billion-row dataset with Google BigQuery (.Rmd file)
Coding challenge 10 (.Rmd file)