Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2019-2020 academic year.
Research Design and Data Analysis was open to L4 (1st year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one three-hour teaching and practical session introducing students to online social media data and enabling a simple analysis and mapping of Twitter tweets collected during the 2012 French Presidential Election.
For those wishing to test themselves the practical instructions for the session are shown below.
The data necessary to complete the practical may be downloaded below.
Colleagues at academic institutions interested in the original PowerPoint slides may make contact to request access.
Businesses, government departments, third sector organisations etc. may wish to explore consultancy options.