ABSTRACT
We explain how to download data from social media, such as all tweets from a specific user, all comments on a Facebook post and ads running on social networking platforms. Scraping techniques, like Python libraries and simpler methods like Google Sheet formulas, will also provide an introduction to the power of programming languages in data acquisition as well as forming readers’ “data frame of mind.” We will incorporate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as a source of data in storytelling as well.
