Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis from Boston
University w/ Gratis Access to Crimson Hexagon
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Making Social Media Matter is a hands-on, 3-day
workshop designed to equip attendees with the knowledge and skills to
quickly analyze and visualize data from popular social media platforms such as
Twitter.
The tools demonstrated in this workshop for network
analysis, machine learning, and geolocation are at the forefront
of social media research and will equip attendees — even those with no
computational training — with expert understanding of how to collect,
analyze, visualize, and interpret social media data for internal and public
use.
In addition to covering the theoretical bases of working
with and modeling big data, the training in this workshop will include access
to and use of leading data platforms, namely Crimson Hexagon, the
Boston University Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit (BU-TCAT) and Gephi.
Media professionals, research analysts, scientists, college
students, and anyone wanting to make sense of social media will
benefit from attending this workshop. All participants that successfully
complete this workshop will:
- Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis: Principles and Practices for Big Data from Boston University.
- Have free access for 3 weeks to the industry-leading ForSight data analysis platform from Crimson Hexagon.
- Receive training in exclusive data analysis tools including the BU-TCAT that can collect and analyze millions of units of social media content.
- Go beyond dashboards and dive deep into data to take their analytic skills to another level of conceptual and practical understanding.
