About
The Ukraine Data Observatory (by Datalab AUTh) is a platform for analyzing and visualizing data related to the war between Ukraine and Russia that broke out on February 24, 2022. It collects tweets from the social network of Twitter, and aims to inform the international community about the related trends, discussed topics, and most active users.
The Ukraine Data Observatory was born by scientific curiosity and eagerness to examine and understand -from a data science perspective- issues related to the Ukraine-Russia war. In addition to informing users about the statistics that emerge from the analysis of the tweets of the social network Twitter, our intention is to reveal and present socio-economic topics that emerged from the war and concern the world community. This initiative is launched and supported by members of the Data and Web Science Lab (DATALAB), an active research group engaged in ICT research and innovation on data science and multi scope analytics under the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The platform examines and analyzes global data, guided by the social feeling and sensitivity required to handle data resulting from such unpleasant events.
The Team
The Ukraine Data Observatory is developed by the Data and Web Science Lab (Datalab) of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Datalab is an active research group engaged in ICT research and innovation on data science and social media, and has many years of experience in collecting and analyzing data from social networks. Learn more at the Datalab’s website https://datalab.csd.auth.gr.
The team that contributed to the development of the Ukraine Data Observatory is:
- George Dialektakis
- Ilias Dimitriadis
- Dimitrios Panteleimon Giakatos
- Stelios Karamanidis
- Anastasios Meletlidis
- Eva Paraschou
- Christina Karagianni
- Vasileios Psomiadis
- Pavlos Sermpezis
- George Vlahavas
- Sofia Yfantidou
- Athena Vakali (Datalab director)
Data sources & Methodology
Twitter. We collect tweets from Twitter users about the war that broke out between Russia and Ukraine. The collection is done using the official Twitter API and collecting all the tweets that contain the following hashtags: #Ουκρανια, #ukraine, #Ukraine, #Russia, #UkraineRussiaWar, #RussiaUkraineWar, #UkraineWar, #StandWithUkraine, #UkraineUnderAttack, #Zelensky, #Putin, #RussiaUkraine, #SlavaUkraini, #UkraineInvasion, #UkraineUnderAttack, #Kyiv.
Data were collected from March 2, 2022 until March 7, 2023.
Contact
If you encounter any issue or have a suggestion to improve or add new content, please contact us at info-datalab@csd.auth.gr