An Open Source Approach to Social Media Data Gathering

Abstract

Modern usage of social media affords the military intelligence and analytic communities novel approaches to gather information. However, the tools and resources to develop these methodologies are still maturing. Furthermore, current data acquisition tools are not available to the DoD for all social media platforms. This thesis addresses a small subset of this problem by developing an open source methodological approach to collect and manage data from a popular social media site that has previously been inaccessible to defense intelligence organizations. This approach was operationalized via the R package called instaExtract, and an exemplar analysis was performed to demonstrate its application and efficiency for intelligence gathering.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064129

Entities

People

  • Anthony J. Kallhoff

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Authentication
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Science
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Software Development

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  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design