Tools, Scripts, Libraries for Digital Methods Research

An evolving collection of tools, scripts and libraries for digital methods research.

Tool collections

• Tools from the Digital Methods Initiative
• Tools from the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris

Data collection

Twitter

• TCAT: https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat/wiki
• Tweepy: https://www.tweepy.org/

YouTube

• YouTube Data Tools: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
• youtube-dl: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Instagram

• https://adamsm.com/instamancer/
• https://github.com/rarcega/instagram-scraper
• https://blog.apify.com/scrape-instagram-posts-comments-and-more-21d05506aeb3
• https://helpcenter.octoparse.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018842071-Scrape-data-on-Instagram

Facebook

• CrowdTangle

Data Analysis

• https://openrefine.org/

Data Visualisation

Simple, web-based, free and/or open-source data visualisation tools.

• Raw Graphs - "missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization", an open-source tool from Density Design with a wide variety of visual formats;
• MiniVAN - open-source tool for visual network analysis from the Public Data Lab;
• DataWrapper - open-source tool originally created by and for journalists and media organisations;
• Flourish - free web-based tool to "explore and explain your data with stunning visualizations and stories".
• Gephi – open source software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks;
  • Learn how to use Gephi - links and materials to get started from Gephi;
  • Gephi Tutorial for working with Twitter mention networks by Bernhard Rieder at the Digital Methods Initiative;
  • Facebook Page Like Networks with Netvizz and Gephi by Bernhard Rieder at the Digital Methods Initiative;
  • Sigma.js - JavaScript library for publishing network graphs on the web;
  • Community support is available on the official Gephi Facebook group and Gephi community forum