{"id":33450,"date":"2025-04-10T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/obtaining-accurate-and-valuable-datasets-for-uni-project-related-to-social-media-analytics\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:28:09","slug":"obtaining-accurate-and-valuable-datasets-for-uni-project-related-to-social-media-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/obtaining-accurate-and-valuable-datasets-for-uni-project-related-to-social-media-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining Accurate And Valuable Datasets For Uni Project Related To Social Media Analytics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently working on my final project titled <strong>\u201cThe Evolution of Social Media Engagement: Trends Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m specifically looking for <strong>free datasets<\/strong> that align with this topic, but I\u2019ve been having trouble finding ones that are accessible without high costs \u2014 especially as a full-time college student. Ideally, I need to be able to <strong>download the data as CSV files<\/strong> so I can import them into <strong>Tableau<\/strong> for visualizations and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few research questions I\u2019m focusing on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How did engagement levels on major social media platforms change between the early and later stages of the pandemic?<\/li>\n<li>What patterns in user engagement (e.g., time of day or week) can be observed during peak COVID-19 months?<\/li>\n<li>Did social media engagement decline as vaccines became widely available and lockdowns began to ease?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I\u2019ve already found a couple of datasets on <strong>Kaggle<\/strong> (linked below), and I may use some information from <strong>gs.statcounter<\/strong>, though that data seems a bit too broad for my needs.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows of any other relevant <strong>free data sources<\/strong>, or has suggestions on where I could look, I\u2019d really appreciate it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/michau96\/social-media-popularity-2009-2023?resource=download&amp;select=social_media_3.csv\">Kaggle dataset 1 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/arunavakrchakraborty\/covid19-twitter-dataset\">Kaggle Dataset 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Poolcrazy\"> \/u\/Poolcrazy <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jw72po\/obtaining_accurate_and_valuable_datasets_for_uni\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jw72po\/obtaining_accurate_and_valuable_datasets_for_uni\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-33450 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='33450' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-33450 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-33450 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I\u2019m currently working on my final project titled \u201cThe Evolution of Social Media Engagement: Trends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}