Week 5: Accessing Data in the Cloud

This week provides an introduction to getting data from the cloud, including ethical considerations, data security and accessing data via APIs.

Lecture Slides   Supporting Code  

Note: materials will be posted before lecture and seminar each week.

Additional resources

• Severance, Charles Russell. 2015. Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works. Charles Severance, 2015.

• Barberá & Steinert-Threlkeld. 2018. “How to use social media data for political science research”. In The Sage handbook of research methods in political science and international relations, pages 404-423.

• Ruths and Pfeffer. 2014. Social media for large studies of behavior. Science.

• Tigani and Naidu. 2017. Google BigQuery Analytics. Weily. (Chapters 1-3)

• Analyzing Big Data in less time with Google BigQuery on YouTube