Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Senators from Alabama in the 115th Congress Any researcher conducting research on Twitter and the US Congress might think, "how hard could it be in creating a data set of Twitter handles for the members of Congress?". At any given time, we know the number of members in the US Congress and we also know the current members of Congress. At this point, creating a data set of Twitter handles for the members of Congress might seem like an easy task, but it turns out it is a lot more challenging than expected.  We present the challenges involved in creating a data set of Twitter handles for the members of  116th US Congress  and provide a data set of Twitter handles for 116th US Congress .  Brief about the US Congress The US Congress is a bicameral legislature comprising of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress consists of: 100 senators, two from each of the fifty states. 435 representatives, seats are distributed by population across the f

The Archives Unleashed Datathon #Vancouver was a two day event from November 1 to November 2, 2018 hosted by the Archives Unleashed team in collaboration with  Simon Fraser University Librar y and Key , SFU's big data initiative. This was second in a series of Archives Unleashed datathons to be funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation . This is the first time for me, Mohammed Nauman Siddique  of the  Web Science and Digital Libraries research group  ( WS-DL ) at Old Dominion University to travel to the datathon at Vancouver.  Day 1 An appropriately rainy Vancouver mornings to set up #hackarchives SFU. Badges ready, WiFi waiting, coffee’s on... pic.twitter.com/Vf2L1IDjfS — Ian Milligan (@ianmilligan1) November 1, 2018 The event kicked off with  Ian Milligan welcoming all the participants at the Archives Unleashed Datathon #Vancouver. It was followed by welcome speech from Gwen Bird , University Librarian at SFU and Peter Chow-White , Director and

Took screen shot, just in case, but I fear #Breitbart is well beyond the point of decency and shame that they would delete this insane tweet. #INTL4335 #Islamophobia pic.twitter.com/ipo1MhDmNI — Cas Mudde 🌪️ (@CasMudde) February 5, 2018 In early February, 2018  Breitbart News  made a splash with its inflammatory tweet suggesting  Muslims will end Super Bowl ,  which they deleted twelve hours later stating it did not meet their editorial standards. The deleted tweet had an imaginary conversation between a Muslim child and a grandparent about the Super Bowl and linked to one of articles on the  declining TV ratings of  National Football League (NFL) for the annual championship game . News articles from  The Hill , Huffington Post , Politico , Independent , etc., talked about the deleted tweet controversy in detail.  We have deleted a tweet that did not meet our editorial standards. — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 5, 2018 Being web