Work Plan
Week 2
- Background research
- Situation in Egypt leading up to the revolt
- Egypt's regulations regarding internet use
- Global overview of censorship
- Explore Python and Processing
- Install Twitter API for Python
Week 3
- Wrap up background research
- Python/Processing basics
- Basic Twitter calls from Python/Processing
- Simple searches from web interface to identify keywords and hashtags to use
- Work on site styling
Week 4
- Intermediate Python/Processing
- Intermediate Twitter API
- Begin writing script to scrape Twitter
Week 5
- Finalize script for scraping Twitter
- Scrape Twitter
- Begin writing data analysis script
Week 6
- Finish script to analyze data
- Analyze data
Week 8
- Wrap up, final touches on project