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A few things to bear in mind when user twitter for research.... | |||
'''You are what you sample.''' When we write a python script to collect Twitter data we are only building one part of a scientific collection instrument. Twitter provides the rest. Not knowing how your collection instrument works is a problem for a scientific researcher. For example, we can’t be sure when we run a collection that we got everything that we requested. We don’t know what’s missing. Things might be missing because Twitter has a policy on how they release information. Things might be missing because there is something funny going on in Twitter’s technical systems. Either way, we scientists working outside of Twitter can not interrogate Twitter’s side of the collection directly. | '''You are what you sample.''' When we write a python script to collect Twitter data we are only building one part of a scientific collection instrument. Twitter provides the rest. Not knowing how your collection instrument works is a problem for a scientific researcher. For example, we can’t be sure when we run a collection that we got everything that we requested. We don’t know what’s missing. Things might be missing because Twitter has a policy on how they release information. Things might be missing because there is something funny going on in Twitter’s technical systems. Either way, we scientists working outside of Twitter can not interrogate Twitter’s side of the collection directly. |