Digital Observatory

Live Australian Twitter trends

This video demonstrates data visualisation of activity patterns in the Australian Twittersphere during one 24-hour period. Data models created by Professor Axel Bruns.

Live Australian Twitter trends

This video demonstrates data visualisation of activity patterns in the Australian Twittersphere during one 24-hour period. Data models created by Professor Axel Bruns.

Data Science Algorithms and Senior Living Exploration

This video demonstrates data visualisation of the Twitter activities and interactions among Australian seniors and senior-related topics. Data models created by Professor Richi Nayak.

Social media deletion and its implications

This video demonstrates data visualisation of social media censorship over a period of time by the governments of countries around the world. Data models created by Professor Nicolas Suzor.

Marissa Takahashi

Manager of the QUT Digital Observatory

Digital data at your fingertips

We can help you analyse social trends by tracking and analysing big data on digital platforms like Twitter.

Mapping the Australian Twittersphere

Our researchers can map who's following who nationally on Twitter and analyse content themes, tweeting patterns and active cluster populations.

The QUT Digital Observatory provides state-of-the-art infrastructure for tracking, collecting, and analysing digital media data. Our ability to manage large sets of continuous and dynamic digital data enables innovative digital media and society research with applications across a range of fields.

The unprecedented use of digital platforms and technologies, coupled with the emergence and growth of ‘big social data’ on digital media consumption and communication, have enabled groundbreaking new research approaches that support the unobtrusive observation of large-scale, population-wide activity patterns in society – often in close to real time. For example, this form of research allows observation of the changing topics in public debate, shifting preferences in cultural consumption, and the rise and fall of particular technologies and platforms.

Our capabilities

We can provide connection to established researchers experienced in social media data analytics and big data support. Our specialist infrastructure allows on-demand data gathering for Twitter and Facebook, and other live and dynamic digital datasets, and access to our analytical software collection.

The Digital Observatory provides researchers with access to the following dataset:

Australian Twitter Collection	A collection of tweets from all identified Australian accounts, collected since 2006. This dataset incorporates: 3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts, with 2.4+ billion tweets captured to date 1+ million new tweets per day, from 140,000 daily active users a comprehensive map of follower/followee network structure and community clusters.

Australian Twitter Collection

A collection of tweets from all identified Australian accounts, collected since 2006. This dataset incorporates:

3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts, with 2.4+ billion tweets captured to date
1+ million new tweets per day, from 140,000 daily active users
a comprehensive map of follower/followee network structure and community clusters.

Other projects

Australian Twitter News Index	Comprehensive collection of all global tweets sharing news from Australian news sites
Digital Media Observatory	Longitudinal, comparative dataset on the availability of digital media content in Australia and the US
Australian Music Observatory	Longitudinal datasets on Australian music consumption patterns across a number of formats

Working with us

If you're interested in collaborating with the Digital Observatory team, or in learning more about our capabilities and facilities, please contact our Digital Observatory Manager.

Contacts

Digital Observatory

Marissa Takahashi, Manager

Phone: 3138 8586
digitalobservatory@qut.edu.au

Level 5, Building Z6
Gona Parade
Kelvin Grove Qld 4059