Glossary

Key Points

Introduction to COSMOS	COSMOS is compact, powerful and free software to collect and analyse social media data. It aims to democratise access to social media data for social scientists and others.
Before using COSMOS	To start a data collection, you must authorise your Twitter account. To use the latest version of COSMOS, check for updates each time you run it.
Data collection screen	COSMOS can collect twitter data from Twitter. COSMOS can filter collections based on a variety of criteria. COSMOS can create subsets of the data while the collection continues.
Importing pre-existing data	COSMOS can be used for pre-existing data. COSMOS can only use CSV and JSON data formats.
Visualizations	COSMOS provides ways to demonstrate and analyse Twitter data.
Frequency and network analysis	COSMOS provides frequency analysis with Twitter data to help us analyse and draw conclusions. COSMOS provides network analysis that gives the opportunity to understand social network structure, the role of key players, communities, etc…
Adding RSS Feeds	COSMOS allows us to collect data from a variety of websites using an RSS Feed. COSMOS can collect RSS Feeds from multiple websites.

csv: A file extension indicating that a text file that has values separated by commas (comma-separated-values).
Filter: To select a subset of data from a dataframe.
JSON: A file extension indicating that the values in a text file are structured using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
The terminal: is the actual interface to the console that you can type and execute text based commands.