Documenting the Now, consists of data in the form of tweets and their metadata.
Input Data is a Tweet.
Output Data is 143 data sets comprising of roughly 7.6 billion Tweets. This is presented in The Catalog, which describes how datasets were assembled, who collected them, and when.
The most recent data set is from February 2023 and encompasses 420,824 tweets.
How is this data utilized?
An example of how this date is used is BillionCOV which is a global billion-scale English-language COVID-19 tweets dataset with more than 1.4 billion tweets originating from 240 countries and territories between October 2019 and April 2022. This dataset has been curated by hydrating the 2 billion tweets present in COV19Tweets.
Data Evaluation
Documenting the Now meets the digital humanities best practices through:
-The data being open by allowing collaboration.
-The data being transparent because data sets/methods are revealed and shared