Big data analysis for social scientists
Rob Ackland and Timothy Graham (University of Queensland) ran a five-day course on Social Media Analysis at the ACSPRI Winter Program, University of Queensland.
12
Jul
14
Jun
Computational Methods for Communication Research: What, Why and How?
Rob Ackland, Tai-Quan Peng (Nanyang Technological University) and Jonathan Zhu (City University of Hong Kong) moderated the discussion panel: "Computational Methods for Communication Research: What, Why and How?" at the 2016 International Communication Association's conference in Fukuoka, Japan.
07
Jun
Scraping web data at the CityU CSS 2016
Rob Ackland was invited to participate in the 2016 CityU Workshop on Computational Approaches to Big Data in the Social Sciences and Humanities, event organised by the City University of Hong Kong and the Web mining lab.
01
Jun
Retirement of VOSON Classic interface
The VOSON Classic interface has been retired as of 31 May, 2016. On this date we switched all Free Tier subscribers over to the VOSON 2.0 interface, which has been available to Professional and Premium Tier subscribers since 2013.
19
May
Discussing the role of Social Media in social and economic development
During his visit to Quello Center (Michigan State University) in early May, Rob Ackland presented on social media and development at a Quello seminar.