Selecting, scraping, and sampling big data sets from the internet : fan blogs as exemplar /

This case study uses a study of fan blog commentary to explain how researchers decide precisely what text to gather from the internet as well as how they identify the locations of that content, decide exactly which website from which to gather data, and how to get the data from the internet into tex...

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Main Authors:	Webb, Lynne M. (Author), Gibson, Danna M. (Author), Wang, Yuanxin (Author), Chang, Hao-Chieh (Author), Thompson-Hayes, Marceline (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Los Angeles, California] : SAGE, 2015.
Series:	SAGE research methods. Cases.
Subjects:	Blogs > Research. Big data. Quantitative research > Case studies. Blogues > Recherche. Données volumineuses. Recherche quantitative > Études de cas. Big data Quantitative research Electronic books. Case studies
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book