The Story of How I Mined Twitter
“Isn’t it funny? You’re a woman in science researching about women in science. How about that?” These were some of the first words that my new supervisor, Mary Flanagan, said to me when she saw me working in the lab. On my first day at tiltfactor as a research assistant, a position set up through Dartmouth’s Women in Science Project, I was asked to build a tool to “mine Twitter” for the NSF REAL project. In the haze of my first day, I did not ask questions, just nodded and agreed. I knew Python, the language I used to build the tool, but I had no idea about Twitter development or research.