Published February 3, 2020 | Version 1.0.0

#cdnpoli and the Twittersphere: User mentions during the 2019 Federal Election

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This is a raw dataset containing the @mention (username) frequencies within tweets that contained one of 150 various keywords and hashtags related to Canadian politics. The dataset begins on October 1 2019 and ends on November 15 2019, providing a roughly 6-week window around the October 21 election. Data was captured using the Digital Methods Initiative's DMI-TCAT toolkit (github.com/dmi-tcat). Part of a larger project supported by a grant from the Canadian Heritage Fund.

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References

  • Erik Borra, Bernhard Rieder, (2014) "Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 66 Iss: 3, pp.262 - 278.