Tools and Services
API Dashboard
The API Dashboard is an interactive web based application designed to provide user friendly access to platform data available via APIs. The Dashboard provides tools to perform social media analysis and allows users to interact with topic modelling results and word embeddings that are generated by the ‘live’ machine learning pipelines.
NewsTalk
NewsTalk is an aggregator of reader commentary on the majority of Australian news web sites. We also harvest Reddit threads linking Australian news stories, providing additional coverage of Australian news commentary even when publishers don't support on-site reader comments.
Mobile Observation Ad Toolkit
The mobile app captures videos and sends them to the backend via API Gateway, triggering a series of AWS Lambda functions for processing, OCR, Meta Ad Library integration, and data polishing. Processed data is stored in S3 or a database and accessed through a dashboard for visualisation.
Data Donation Tools
Browser Plugin
The architecture for a Browser Plugin system designed to collect, store, enrich, and visualise social media advertisement data. The system uses cloud-based services provided by Amazon Web Services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
API Data Collection Tools
AusReddit
AusReddit is a research databank of Reddit posts and comments from Australian-related subreddits. The goal is to provide academic researchers with easy access to a rich data source that can give rich insights into Australia's societal issues. Currently, the databank contains more than 5,538,609 submissions and 110,210,528 comments from 590 subreddits.
Data Download Packages
A Data Download Package system designed to facilitate the collection, extraction, inspection, and analysis of digital trace data donated by users. The system enables researchers to analyse structured data in a secure environment using a streamlined process.