How is the data sampled?
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Hello!
I want to utlilize data in a way to discuss long term trends on Twitter as a whole per year-- hopefully to use it as a representative sample of Twitter during that year.
But I wanted to ask-- How was the data sampled? Was it randomly generated from Twitter as a whole per year? Were there subcategories? Was it convenience? Or something else?
Just want to make sure that the twitter year splits can be properly used for my study.
Thanks!
Hi! The data was randomly sampled by year from the twitter stream grab (https://archive.org/details/twitterstream). Unfortunately the splits do not have equal representation of all months / days because several were missing from the grab. For example, the 2019 split is missing data from Sept. to Dec.