Dallas Police Shooting Twitter Dataset

Description

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for several Twitter search queries that were collected the week following the shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7th 2017, using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 7,146,993 Tweets make up the combined dataset.

Physical Description

8 files: 7,146,993 Tweets, 219,008 image files

Creation Information

Phillips, Mark Edward 2016-07-05/2016-07-14.

Context

This dataset is part of the collection entitled: UNT Data Repository and was provided by the UNT Libraries to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 392 times. More information about this dataset can be viewed below.

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Description

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for several Twitter search queries that were collected the week following the shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7th 2017, using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 7,146,993 Tweets make up the combined dataset.

Physical Description

8 files: 7,146,993 Tweets, 219,008 image files

Source

  • Twitter

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UNT Data Repository

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Creation Date

  • 2016-07-05/2016-07-14

Coverage Date

Added to The UNT Digital Library

  • Aug. 31, 2017, 1:17 p.m.

Description Last Updated

  • Aug. 31, 2017, 1:53 p.m.

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Past 30 days: 2
Total Uses: 392

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Phillips, Mark Edward. Dallas Police Shooting Twitter Dataset, dataset, 2016-07-05/2016-07-14; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc991469/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .

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