twConstitution
Twitter Online Tracker of the Chilean Referendum for a New Constitution
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Twitter Online Tracker of the Chilean Referendum for a New Constitution
Overview
This is a Twitter online tracker of the Chilean referendum for a new Constitution in October 2020, which contains daily datasets on #Apruebo and #Rechazo viewpoints on this social media.
These data sets are currently being used in this research project.
Data sets are scraped and uploaded regularly. Some of the variables are date, hour, username, tweet text, RT count, fav count, location, among others. The data was collected during the afternoon each day. A couple of exceptions, such as October 6th and 26th, were collected early morning on the following day. This is not an issue because the data could be sliced, and in order to work with the whole period, it is necessary to merge the sets and retain unique cases.
Data Coverage
Following current ethical considerations on social media research, the files in
UTF-8encoded comma-delimited values format have been temporarily moved to a secured and private repository to protect users-specific information and geolocated data. Once that kind of information will be anonymised with a cryptographic algorithm based on a hash function, the data will be re-released.
| Dataset | Date | Year | N | Size | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #Apruebo | Nov. 01 | 2020 | 45,195 | 46.5 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Nov. 01 | 2020 | 22,142 | 24.0 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 31 | 2020 | 50,244 | 52.1 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 31 | 2020 | 27,331 | 29.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 30 | 2020 | 53,889 | 56.1 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 30 | 2020 | 33,479 | 36.6 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 29 | 2020 | 57,567 | 60.1 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 29 | 2020 | 38,636 | 42.1 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 28 | 2020 | 59,994 | 62.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 28 | 2020 | 42,398 | 45.2 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 27 | 2020 | 63,778 | 66.7 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 27 | 2020 | 50,539 | 53.7 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 26 | 2020 | 65,261 | 68.2 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 26 | 2020 | 52,946 | 56.2 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 25 | 2020 | 47,798 | 50.7 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 25 | 2020 | 56,688 | 60.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 24 | 2020 | 34,038 | 37.0 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 24 | 2020 | 51,661 | 55.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 23 | 2020 | 32,773 | 35.7 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 23 | 2020 | 49,758 | 53.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 22 | 2020 | 28,278 | 31.0 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 22 | 2020 | 46,961 | 51.6 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 21 | 2020 | 25,804 | 28.2 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 21 | 2020 | 45,902 | 50.5 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 20 | 2020 | 25,167 | 27.3 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 20 | 2020 | 45,186 | 49.7 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 19 | 2020 | 22,479 | 24.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 19 | 2020 | 40,575 | 44.5 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 18 | 2020 | 19,825 | 21.7 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 18 | 2020 | 36,607 | 40.1 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 17 | 2020 | 18,776 | 20.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 17 | 2020 | 36,764 | 40.2 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 16 | 2020 | 18,609 | 20.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 16 | 2020 | 35,427 | 38.5 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 15 | 2020 | 18,738 | 20.5 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 15 | 2020 | 35,741 | 38.7 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 14 | 2020 | 18,634 | 20.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 14 | 2020 | 36,729 | 40.7 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 13 | 2020 | 19,568 | 21.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 13 | 2020 | 36,281 | 40.1 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 12 | 2020 | 21,218 | 23.1 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 12 | 2020 | 38,122 | 42.2 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 11 | 2020 | 21,709 | 23.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 11 | 2020 | 34,779 | 38.0 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 10 | 2020 | 20,562 | 22.3 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 10 | 2020 | 33,350 | 36.4 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 09 | 2020 | 19,366 | 21.0 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 09 | 2020 | 30,696 | 33.6 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 08 | 2020 | 19,960 | 21.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 08 | 2020 | 31,076 | 34.2 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 07 | 2020 | 20,014 | 21.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 07 | 2020 | 30,396 | 33.3 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 06 | 2020 | 20,938 | 22.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 06 | 2020 | 30,926 | 33.8 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 05 | 2020 | 22,222 | 23.9 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 05 | 2020 | 32,821 | 36.1 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 04 | 2020 | 24,065 | 25.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 04 | 2020 | 34,413 | 37.6 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 03 | 2020 | 26,960 | 28.6 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 03 | 2020 | 37,364 | 40.8 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 02 | 2020 | 26,628 | 28.3 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 02 | 2020 | 38,545 | 42.4 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Oct. 01 | 2020 | 27,270 | 28.9 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Oct. 01 | 2020 | 38,697 | 42.4 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Sep. 30 | 2020 | 26,814 | 28.5 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Sep. 30 | 2020 | 36,528 | 39.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Sep. 29 | 2020 | 25,833 | 27.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Sep. 29 | 2020 | 36,921 | 40.4 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Sep. 28 | 2020 | 25,900 | 27.3 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Sep. 28 | 2020 | 36,546 | 39.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Sep. 27 | 2020 | 24,158 | 25.4 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Sep. 27 | 2020 | 32,945 | 35.9 MB | CSV |
| #Apruebo | Sep. 26 | 2020 | 21,982 | 23.1 MB | CSV |
| #Rechazo | Sep. 26 | 2020 | 31,244 | 33.9 MB | CSV |
Metadata and Preservation
This repository is linked to the OSF-Project (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/73NDB). This site was updated on a regular basis, see the CHANGELOG.
Storage
The GitHub repository has controlled access with Two-Factor Authentication 2FA with two physical USB security devices (Bastián González-Bustamante, ORCID iD 0000-0003-1510-6820). USB devices issue one-time passwords to generate a cryptographic authentication FIDO2 and U2F.
Software
We used R v4.0.2 -- Taking Off Again and the following packages: dplyr, rtweet, and tidytext.
License
The content of this project itself is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), and the underlying code used to format and display that content is licensed under an MIT license.
The above implies that both material and underlying code may be shared, reused, and adapted as long as appropriate acknowledgement is given.
Citation
González-Bustamante, B. (2022). Twitter Online Tracker of the Chilean Referendum for a New Constitution (Version 1.5.18 – Frosty Scene) [Computer software]. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/73NDB
Author
I am completing my DPhil (PhD) dissertation in the Department of Politics and International Relations and St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Further details on my website bgonzalezbustamante.com.