Date of Award
3-22-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Operations Research
Department
Department of Operational Sciences
First Advisor
Bradley Boehmke, PhD.
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.
AFIT Designator
AFIT-ENS-MS-18-M-130
DTIC Accession Number
AD1064129
Recommended Citation
Kallhoff, Anthony J., "An Open Source Approach to Social Media Data Gathering" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 1935.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/1935