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Our catalogue of tools, datasets, documentation, and services from all partner institutions and infrastructures. These resources help researchers through the time-consuming work of exploring, collecting, tidying, modelling, storing, analysing, and publishing data that requires specific technical skills.
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AusReddit

A research databank of Reddit posts and comments from Australian-related subreddits.

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Australian Twittersphere

A longitudinal collection of tweets from ~1M identified Australian accounts, 2018–2023, at 22–41M tweets per month before API changes ended collection.

explore · collect
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youte

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.

collect · tidy and model
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#ArsonEmergency: Climate change disinformation during the Australian bushfire season 2019-2020 paper #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions paper #IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a dangerously polarised debate report 'Most people have no idea what autism is': Unpacking autism disclosure using social media analysis paper 100 Days of Covid-19 dataset 2019 Federal Election dataset 2020 Queensland Election dataset AIReD dataset Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis paper Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora paper AusReddit dataset Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 1) report Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 2) report Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 3) report Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 4) report Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 5) report Australian Twitterspherearchived dataset Australian Twittersphere Population Rules dataset Becoming propaganda: Critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education paper Centralising Qualitative Research in Big Data Methods Through Algorithmic Ethnography paper Coordination Network Toolkit software Data Governance Guide for Human-Related Dynamic Digital Data guide Detecting Natural Hazard-Related Disaster Impacts with Social Media Analytics: The Case of Australian States and Territories paper Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior? paper Election Twitter chatter: Who's sharing and what's trending report Exploring consumer perceptions of the value proposition embedded in vegan food products using text analytics paper First 100 days of COVID-19 - Australian Twitter users' concerns mapped report How social media was ahead of the curve when it came to COVID-19 report Identifying COVID-19 misinformation tweets and learning their spatio-temporal topic dynamics using nonnegative coupled matrix tensor factorization paper Look who's talking: Professional conversations of learning designers on Twitter during COVID-19 paper NewsTalkarchived dataset Parents, carers, and policy labor: Policy networks and new media paper Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: A case study on Gab social paper Report on data availability of social media platforms report Social Media Analysis Reveals That Most People Have No Idea What Autism Is: Impact Case Study report Social media can guide public pandemic policy: QUT research report The 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube: New voices, new platforms, new television? paper The 2019 election on Twitter: Watergate, mums, and well-organised independents report The Australian Digital Observatory: Social Media Collection, Discovery and Analytics at Scale paper The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media paper The social life of literacy education: How the 2018 #phonicsdebate is reshaping the field paper tidy_tweetdeprecated software Topic, sentiment and impact analysis: COVID19 information seeking on social media paper tweetexploRdeprecated software Understanding the spatio-temporal topic dynamics of Covid-19 using nonnegative tensor factorization: A case study paper What Can Twitter Tell Us about Skin Cancer Communication and Prevention on Social Media? paper youte software
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