Digital Demography: Analyzing Web and Social Media Data

Course materials for the EDSD course on digital demography.

Preparation

We will use some APIs that require an account and an access-token. It would be good if you create an account with Facebook and OpenAI before the course on Tuesday (But it is not strictly necessary).

Content and remarks

x7 Twitter - This part will be skipped, since twitter faded into X and X has no useful API anymore. I left the content here in case anyone is interested in it.

File access

The files will also be available in this share: https://nextcloud.demogr.mpg.de/s/NWp7m5xp5W8TZWS

Schedule

Monday

01 internet and webscraping

Assignment for Tuesday:

• Plot headline dataset
• Read hurricane paper "01 The Impact of Hurricane Maria on Out-Migration from Puerto Rico.pdf" from the "readings" folder

Tuesday

03 accessing APIs

Assignment for Wednesday

• Read https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/beyond-the--likes---how-can-we-harness-facebook-s-marketing-data

Wednesday

02 Discussion of the hurricane-facebook paper 04 05

Presentation on Bibliometric data

Thursday

07 Microsimulation 09 Assignment