Johannes B. Gruber

It works pretty well in my limited testing. But streaming is a bit weird in R and the event objects are a bit strange to wrangle into a table. So there are still some things to do!

I love this #rstats package!! Go test it out!

support firehose · Issue #23 · JBGruber/atrrr See: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose I tried it at some point and the socket part works fine. However, decoding the CBOR event data is a bigger challenge. The Python package use...

The next version of the #rstats 📦 {atrrr} will likely contain a function to stream from the Bluesky Firehose! Looking for people to test and comment now:

github.com/JBGruber/atr...

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"Showing the important things you missed. Posts and replies from people you follow highlighting posts that got a lot of traction since you were last online. No retweets."

(Not sure if this one is still necessary since "Popular With Friends" is there by default)

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"See posts from your mutual follows"

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A bit of an oldschool one that just collects all posts with #rstats (created before hashtags were properly implemented here)

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"TADAsky is a cross-disciplinary feed on text-as-data, natural language processing and computational social science research and discussions."

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"A feed for communication scholars to have focused discussion and enjoy serendipitous discovery of each other's work."

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I talked to some people recently who said they got bored or overwhelmed by Bluesky after a while. Turns out they didn't know about alternative feeds yet and we're scrolling the chronological one.

If you like that, great, but here are some alternative feeds I like.

Ah yes! Sorry I posted the other one on the same day and grabbed the wrong link...

They implemented something wrong in their API. Whether this is an accident or on purpose, I do not know

Collecting TikTok Data Getting TikTok data (<https://tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok. Originally a port of Deen Freelon's Pyktok (<https://github.com/dfreelon/pykt...

FYI: the comparsion was done with #rstats {traktok}.

Link to package: jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Link to tool paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

This should yield the same results and the IN method saves you some API requests. But in reality, I would have missed 80% of the videos going with the IN method.

I then tried two different approaches: 1. iterating through the accounts and searching videos where it EQuals the creator; 2. looking for videos where the creator is IN the list of party accounts

I wanted to see which videos the German parties/top candidates had posted between the announcement of the federal election and the election. These are the accounts I found in a 5 minute search

Pretty wild that depending on how you search the #tiktok research API, you get wildly different results

QTA-DUB2? 😃

Then, once you scrape that news, make it available to others for "non-consumptive research" - osf.io/gz3xf_v1 @jbgruber.bsky.social @vanatteveldt.com #ica25

Very impressive work to build a modular open-source infrastructure for news scraping by @jbgruber.bsky.social that should be adapted and built upon by anyone scraping news!

Want to easily scrape data from TikTok?

There's an R package for that!

traktok

"While it is neither the first nor only tool to do so ... the [package provides] ... an easy-to-understand consistent syntax [meant] to encourage TikTok research"

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Thanks for the share, I didn't even notice it got past moderation already!

Can I buy a t-shirt with this post somewhere 😂

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites?

There's an R package for that!

paperboy

"paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

I don't think anyone ICAed harder than @damiantrilling.net, at least judging by his badge. #ica25

I would summarize this great last presentation of #ica25, but @camilambpp.bsky.social has already done it better 👇

Always worth sticking around until the end of #ica25: @profvaccari.bsky.social presenting an insightful study on whether people trust misinformation on WhatsApp simply because someone put a BBC logo on it (they do).

Some people have left #ica25 already, but great research is still being presented, like @gongbaobao.bsky.social who shows this co-consumption network of German media

This was also a theme in many @icamobile.bsky.social panels... working with existing datasets to run secondary analyses to answer new questions.

@jbgruber.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com argue that as data become more difficult to collect (no APIs, scraping more difficult) we need to share existing data more. And how non-consumptive research is a way to do that without goi g to jail! #ica25