How-To Guides

Sprinklr

The SMAC Lab at LSU has access to the state of the art social media analytics software, Sprinklr.

Sprinklr allows students, faculty and researchers to track Twitter for public opinion and consumer research. Staff and students use various Sprinklr to collect data surrounding the demographics, locations, and sentiment of Twitter users related to specific topics or accounts.

TikTok

Social media is a huge part of what we research in the SMAC Lab, and this guide provides information step-by-step on how to download and access TikTok data.

ManuScrape

If you’re looking at other web-based platforms, this is a link to ManuScrape; an open source program that allows for collaborative data management for digital ethnographic projects, or “netnographic research.”

ManuScrape