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Queensland Election 2020 on Twitter

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Following a curated dataset on Australia's Federal Election 2019, which has been published, the QUT Digital Observatory along with Professor Axel Bruns, Professor Daniel Angus, and PhD student Tegan Cohen carried out another collection of tweets from Twitter accounts officially associated with Queensland election candidates in 2020.

Files included:

  • qldelection2020_candidate_tweets.csv: Full text and metadata of tweets posted by election candidates during the campaign.
  • queenslandelection2020conversationtweetids.csv: tweet IDs of all tweets in the collection, including tweets from the broader community mentioning the candidate accounts. Full text cannot be provided openly for tweets not posted by the election candidates. If you wish to work with the full data of these tweets, please contact the QUT Digital Observatory to discuss access.
  • candidate_info.csv: Names and party affiliations of included candidates.
  • queensland-election-2020-candidates-dataset.pdf: background info and summary data for the candidate tweet data (corresponding to qldelection2020_candidate_tweets.csv).
  • queensland-election-2020-conversation-dataset.pdf: background info and summary data for the conversation data (corresponding to queenslandelection2020conversationtweetids.csv).

Access rights

This dataset consists of three (3) .csv files, including one containing tweet text and metadata, one containing only tweet IDs and one containing candidate information. Use of the tweet ID .csv file to rehydrate tweets is solely for non-commercial research purposes and subject to Twitter's terms, including Twitter Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Developer Agreement and Policy. The .csv file containing tweet text and metadata is provided in the understanding that the authors of the tweets therein were public figures posting on their official Twitter accounts at the time. It is a condition of use to cite these .csv files. The candidate .csv file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The two PDF fact sheets included in this dataset are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Geographical area of data collection

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Data focuses on Australian events, but is not restricted to data sourced from Australia.

Research areas

Australian government and politics
Communication and media studies

Cite this collection

Axel, Bruns; Daniel, Agnus; Tegan, Cohen; QUT Digital Observatory; (2022): Queensland Election 2020 on Twitter. Queensland University of Technology. (Dataset) https://doi.org/10.25912/RDF_1665115527020

Data file types

.csv and .pdf

Licence

Access rights to different files in the dataset are detailed in the Access Rights section.

Copyright

© Queensland University of Technology, 2022.

Dates of data collection

From 2020-10-17 to 2020-11-03

Connections

Has association with
Daniel Angus  (Researcher)
Has chief investigator
Axel Bruns  (Researcher)

Contacts

Name: QUT Digital Observatory
Phone: +61 7 3138 8586

Other

Date record created:
2022-09-30T14:17:14
Date record modified:
2024-09-06T14:43:38
Record status:
Published - Open Access