1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O
Montréal, QC H3G 1M8
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The Centre for the Study of Democratic citizenship presents a methods workshop by:
Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology)
Training workshop on collection, analysis and visualization of social media data using tableau
Where and When: Monday, October 15, 2018 from 9am to 12pm. Henry F.Hall Building, Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, H1220, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
RSVP on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/analyzing-and-visualizing-social-media-data-tickets-50179472152?utm_term=eventurl_text
About the workshop: Particularly when working with large social media datasets, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches that draw especially on visual representations of ‘big data’ are now an indispensable part of the the analytics process. This data analytics and visualisation workshop focusses on a number of emerging standard tools and methods for large-scale data analytics, using Twitter data to illustrate these approaches. It introduces participants to the open-source Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolkit (TCAT) as a capable and reliable tool for data gathering from the Twitter API, and to the high-end data analytics software Tableau as a powerful means of processing and visualising large datasets. The skills gained in the workshop are also transferrable to working with other large datasets from social media and other sources.
About Dr Axel Bruns: Dr Axel Bruns is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and was a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi). He is the President of the Association of Internet Researchers. Bruns is the author of Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018),Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and a co-editor of Twitter and Society (2014), A Companion to New Media Dynamics (2012) and Uses of Blogs (2006). Bruns is an expert on the impact of user-led content creation, or produsage, and his current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter, especially in the context of acute events. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. See http://mappingonlinepublics.net/for more details on his current social media research.
All are welcome!
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