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Netlytic Gets a Refresh for 2021

Netlytic has been updated for 2021, introducing a host of new researcher-friendly features including: an easier to use query-creation interface for Twitter data collection, a new log file to help users (Tier 3) to monitor data collection progress and adjust data collection criteria

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How to Update your YouTube Dataset

Step 1: Click on the ‘My Datasets’ in the main menu. Step 2: Click on the ‘Edit’ button next to your dataset as shown below: Step 3: Click on the ‘Update’ button:

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How to use SentiStrength to analyze tweets collected with Netlytic

Note: the instructions are tested on a PC computer with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365. In Netlytic (under My Datasets), download one of your Twitter datasets from Netlytic to your computer as a CSV file: Open the downloaded dataset

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Checking for deleted tweets

The following steps will help you to check how many tweets in your dataset have been deleted from Twitter, which could have been done by a user or the platform. Step 1: Install a free text editor that supports regular

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How to authenticate with Facebook

To use Facebook API, please go to the “My Account” section of the website and click “Continue with Facebook” as shown below:

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Tutorial: Social Media Data Collection & Network Analysis with Netlytic and R

URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_EH30ycPj2r6t0vH1QSSBjKJ209qq7-nwz2zAJno8Mk/pub?embedded=true

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Tutorial: Analyzing Conversations about #SMSociety15 on Twitter

By the end of this tutorial you will learn how to create videos of dynamic networks like this one: PART 1: Network Discovery in Netlytic Data source: Twitter Step 1: Connect your Twitter account to Netlytic Note: Alternately, you can download the

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Tutorial: Analyzing Conversations about #Blackberry on Twitter

Topic: Conversation about #blackberry on Twitter Data source: Twitter Dataset: http://bit.ly/blackberry14 Step 1: Connect your Twitter account to Netlytic Step 2: Go to https://twitter.com/search-advanced and create a test search query. For today’s tutorial, type “#blackberry” into the “Any of these words”

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Tutorial: Analyzing Conversations about #Ebola on Twitter

Data source: Twitter Step 1: Connect your Twitter account to Netlytic Note: Alternately, you can download the “Ebola” dataset that will be used for this tutorial from  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AilmXl-I6ZWkdHlsZElNWFZsNG9qM0pqZ3JhcGstaEE&single=true&gid=0&output=csv  Step 2: Go to https://twitter.com/search-advanced and create a test search query. For today’s tutorial,

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Tutorial: Studying Collaborative Learning with Twitter (CSV files)

Dataset Type: a CSV file containing messages from Twitter Step 1: Download the CCK11 dataset to your computer LASI_CCK_11_Twitter – sample.csv Sample dataset Notes: This dataset contains a sample of public tweets posted by participants in a Massive Open Online Course

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