QUT Research Infrastructure
A facility within QUT's Research Infrastructure portfolio dedicated to supporting inquiry into public discourse on important societal issues. Our computational expertise and HASS understanding deliver cost-effective, bespoke project support.
Design and implement research data workflows from collection through to analysis-ready output.
End-to-end analytical support for researchers working with complex, large-scale datasets.
Curated, longitudinal social media archives and practical guidance on ethical digital data use.
A research databank of Reddit posts and comments from Australian-related subreddits.
A longitudinal collection of tweets from ~1M identified Australian accounts, 2018–2023, at 22–41M tweets per month before API changes ended collection.
youte is a command-line tool that collects and tidies YouTube video metadata and comments from YouTube Data API v.3. At the moment, the tool supports collecting public data that does not require OAuth 2.0.
The Digital Observatory has been collaborative and proactive in meeting with OREI to discuss topics concerning the collection and analysis of human data from social media, providing advice for data-specific queries that arise during study design and ethics preparation.
This is amazing — it has incredible applications for us here in DMRC. The current Python libraries and approaches are incredibly limited in our neck of the woods. I can think of at least a dozen students, postdocs and faculty with immediate need for a support tool like this.
Everyone at the Digital Observatory is always so proactive and helpful when I cross paths with them. It's such a pleasure to work with you.
Very helpful in scoping out my research project and responsive to my needs, ensuring the research question I was exploring was answered. For any researcher considering using social media data, I would recommend getting in contact.
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