🗓️ Week 09 ->>Working with APIs

Students will be introduced multiple APIs to collect data from digital platforms and how they can access them through R.

👨‍🏫 Lecture Slides

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✍️ Lab Materials

🚧 They will set up a developer account to access APIs to pull data from the platforms.🚧

📚 Required Reading

• Bruns, A. (2019). After the ‘APIcalypse’: Social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research. Information, Communication & Society, 22(11), 1544-1566.

• Prado-Román, C., Gómez-Martínez, R., & Orden-Cruz, C. (2021). Google Trends as a predictor of presidential elections: The United States versus Canada. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(4), 666-680.