Obamathon

On January 5th, 2017, the White House announced the release of downloads for their Twitter, Facebook, and Vine archives.

The Obamathon is a one day event at ITP to develop projects that make use of this data.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/obamathon-tickets-30256812942

Background

• Twitter Announcement
• White House blog: New Lenses on the First Social Media Presidency.
• White House blog: The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

Project Links

• Add your name and project name and link here

White House Data

• @WhiteHouse Twitter archive
• White House Facebook archive
• White House Vine Archive
• @POTUS Twitter archive
• @FLOTUS Twitter archive
• Obama GIPHY collection

Other Data

• We've added some additional community contributed datasets here in this repo.
• White House Instagram
• National Popular Vote by State

Data Resources

• American Presidency Project
• White House Transition Project
• Sunlight Foundation

Technical Resources:

• Surveillance Society Github
• Programming from A to Z
• Reading and Writing Electronic Text
• Clarifai

Inspirational Links

• 5 Inspiring Lessons Taught by Michelle Obama
• Inspirational Sayings from President Obama's Presidency
• Why I'm Thankful for Obama
• White House Social Media Archive
• @Relive44 Twitter Bot
• Hindsight is 20/20 by Luke Dubois