9:45 AM - 5:30 PM, Wednesday 14 June 2017

Place: The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, Manchester.

This course introduces free Windows-based software for collecting tweets and for downloading the sets of comments on YouTube videos. It also describes a range of keyword, network and graphical methods to analyse the data for social science research purposes, as supported by the software. This is a small scale style of big data research. The course includes a brief discussion of ethical and practical issues associated with social media data analysis. The practical sessions give an introduction to the free program, with supporting documentation for those wishing to become advanced users.

The cost for UK registered postgraduate students is £30. For further information and to book, visit the NCRM event page.