UseR2019_tutorial

Watch me: introduction to social media analytics

Tutorial for UseR2019


Dear Tutorial participants,

Welcome! we are all excited for the tutorial tomorrow and hope we will have some great time looking into social media and fantastic things we can do with social media data.

So that our session is as practical and handson as possible, please make sure install the following packages:


  • Working with APIs

install.packages("httr")

install.packages("jsonlite")

  • Twitter

install.packages("rtweet")

  • Instagram - see comments in the tute

install.packages("instaR")

  • Youtube - see comments in the tute

install.packages("tubeR")

  • Text analytics

install.packages("tidyverse")

install.packages("tidytext") install.packages ("tidyR") install.packages("wordcloud2")

  • Image analytics

install.packages("RoogleVision")

  • Additional

install.packages ("lubridate")


You will also need to have

  1. a Twitter account that you can create at https://twitter.com/login (note that it is a "normal" account, you do not need a Developer's account for this tute)

  2. A Facebook and Instagram accounts which you can create at https://www.facebook.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/ Ideally, you convert them to Instagram Business, but this is optional as we will go through this step during the tutorial.

  3. A Google and Google Developer accounts,https://myaccount.google.com and https://developers.google.com/


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