OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media
Author(s) -
Clayton A. Davis,
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia,
Luca Maria Aiello,
Keychul Chung,
Michael Conover,
Emilio Ferrara,
Alessandro Flammini,
Geoffrey Fox,
Xiaoming Gao,
Bruno Gonçalves,
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz,
Kibeom Hong,
Pik-Mai Hui,
Scott McCaulay,
Karissa McKelvey,
Mark Meiss,
Snehal Patil,
Chathuri Peli Kankanamalage,
Valentin Pentchev,
Judy Qiu,
A. Ratkiewicz,
Alex Rudnick,
Benjamin Serrette,
Prashant Shiralkar,
Onur Varol,
Lilian Weng,
TakLon Wu,
Andrew Younge,
Filippo Menczer
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
peerj computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806
H-Index - 24
ISSN - 2376-5992
DOI - 10.7717/peerj-cs.87
Subject(s) - social media , data science , observatory , computer science , big data , world wide web , open source , social network (sociolinguistics) , social media analytics , software , data collection , analytics , citizen science , social network analysis , sociology , astronomy , data mining , social science , physics , programming language
The study of social phenomena is becoming increasingly reliant on big data from online social networks. Broad access to social media data, however, requires software development skills that not all researchers possess. Here we present the IUNI Observatory on Social Media, an open analytics platform designed to facilitate computational social science. The system leverages a historical, ongoing collection of over 70 billion public messages from Twitter. We illustrate a number of interactive open-source tools to retrieve, visualize, and analyze derived data from this collection. The Observatory, now available at osome.iuni.iu.edu, is the result of a large, six-year collaborative effort coordinated by the Indiana University Network Science Institute
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