Role: Facilitator Host: Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney · Dates: November–December 2016

Two-day professional development workshop introducing R programming fundamentals and social media data collection. Day 1 covered R/RStudio basics, data manipulation with dplyr, visualisation with ggplot2, and text mining with the tm package using Twitter data from the #smachedavo protest. Day 2 focused on API authentication, live Twitter data collection with the twitteR package, control flow, and automated data scraping workflows.