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Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing
Sociological Methods & Research ( IF 6.5 ) Pub Date : 2015-10-09 , DOI: 10.1177/0049124115605339
Tyler H McCormick 1, 2, 3, 4 , Hedwig Lee 1, 4 , Nina Cesare 1 , Ali Shojaie 2, 3, 5 , Emma S Spiro 1, 3, 6
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Despite recent and growing interest in using Twitter to examine human behavior and attitudes, there is still significant room for growth regarding the ability to leverage Twitter data for social science research. In particular, gleaning demographic information about Twitter users—a key component of much social science research—remains a challenge. This article develops an accurate and reliable data processing approach for social science researchers interested in using Twitter data to examine behaviors and attitudes, as well as the demographic characteristics of the populations expressing or engaging in them. Using information gathered from Twitter users who state an intention to not vote in the 2012 presidential election, we describe and evaluate a method for processing data to retrieve demographic information reported by users that is not encoded as text (e.g., details of images) and evaluate the reliability of these techniques. We end by assessing the challenges of this data collection strategy and discussing how large-scale social media data may benefit demographic researchers.

中文翻译:

使用 Twitter 进行人口和社会科学研究:数据收集和处理工具

尽管最近人们对使用 Twitter 来检查人类行为和态度的兴趣越来越大,但在利用 Twitter 数据进行社会科学研究的能力方面仍有很大的增长空间。特别是,收集 Twitter 用户的人口统计信息——许多社会科学研究的一个关键组成部分——仍然是一个挑战。本文为有兴趣使用 Twitter 数据检查行为和态度以及表达或参与这些行为的人群的人口统计特征的社会科学研究人员开发了一种准确可靠的数据处理方法。利用从 Twitter 用户那里收集的信息,这些用户表示不打算在 2012 年总统大选中投票,我们描述并评估了一种处理数据的方法,以检索用户报告的未编码为文本的人口统计信息(例如,图像的细节),并评估这些技术的可靠性。我们最后评估了这种数据收集策略的挑战,并讨论了大规模社交媒体数据如何使人口研究人员受益。
更新日期:2015-10-09
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