Scraping @DataONEorg Tweets Off the Web with Browser Extensions

An earlier method I tried was unable to harvest tweets mentioning @DataONEorg using the Google Chrome Browser extension, “Scraper” Scraper is a simple data mining extension for Google Chromeโ„ข that is useful for online research when you need to quickly analyze data in spreadsheet form. Reviewing some of the software Continue reading Scraping @DataONEorg Tweets Off the Web with Browser Extensions

Harvesting @DataONEorg Twitter Mentions via Topsy

The previous notebook entry concerned mentions of @DataONEorg on Twitter. I established the following: The oldest tweet is from 2 years ago. It is dated July 29, 2012. This tweet is accessible from here: http://topsy.com/s?q=%40DataONEorg&window=a&type=tweet&sort=date&offset=990 The very first re-tweet of @DataONEorg was March 15, 2011. This was 5 months after Continue reading Harvesting @DataONEorg Twitter Mentions via Topsy

DataONE Community Engagement via Twitter

DataONE has been around since 2010. It’s an NSF project so it’s continually evaluated for performance. One metric could be reach and engagement on social media, as a measure of awareness about DataONE. Since I’ve looked at open science sentiment analysis ย before, I volunteered to poke around a bit on Continue reading DataONE Community Engagement via Twitter

Archiving Citation Libraries for Open Notebook Science

In May when my open notebook was first set up, I considered the idea of “media management” in a post called “Open Notebook Science – Media Management.” I touched on Mendeley, Figshare, and Flickr as potential ways of sharing media. I now want to point out another post by Carly Continue reading Archiving Citation Libraries for Open Notebook Science