How do we get data?

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss the assigned materials
• Begin working on creating custom data exercise.
• Review projects

Assigned Materials

• Ledford, Heidi. “Researchers scramble as Twitter plans to end free data access”. February 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00460-z if you run into paywall issues, click access through institution and login with your UIUC acct
• McNulty, Tess. “What’s on Top of TikTok?” Public Books, November 8, 2023. https://www.publicbooks.org/whats-on-top-of-tiktok/.
• Trezza, Domenico. “To scrape or not to scrape, this is dilemma. The post-API scenario and implications on digital research” Frontiers in Sociology March 2023 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1145038/full

  Additional Materials

Assignments

• Complete the Web Scraping Project (Due 2/27)
• Meet with group members about project details
• Proposal due 2/27