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Content Analysis
Researchers sometimes use news indexes like Nexis Uni and then content analysis tools to measure for events and trends (sometimes called "content analysis"). Or researchers measure how frequently words appear in text like books using Google's N-Grams. Some of these projects below provide a broad sweep of examples of research projects coding networks or media or are tools to enable this approach.
- GDELTEnormous dataset of media from around the world, coverage from 1979-forward.
- International Networks ArchiveFrom Princeton's Sociology Department, data for network and communications analysis.
- Computational Event Data"Uses the automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa."
- Google's Ngram ViewerHow often have words appeared in the books digitized by Google?
Internet Measurement
- Stanford Large Network Dataset CollectionNetwork data of social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Data for Wikipedia, Reddit, online review sites.
- QuantcastMeasure website traffic. Uses cookies, computer-identification, and other direct traffic "surveillance" versus panel data.
- Google Insights for SearchHow often have people searched for a term?
- ComScoreReports on internet media usage.
