🔔New 4CAT version: 1.49🔔
🔎 Explorer revamp: Investigate datasets through an interface that mimics the original data source. Sort your data, make manual field notes, or add processor-made annotations.
🧰 Data source updates
🦜 Zeeschuimer import fixes
Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
🐈⬛🐈New 1.54 4CAT update 🐈🐈⬛
github.com/digitalmetho...
📽️ Show downloaded media in the Explorer. This works for media uploads and social media datasets if images/videos have been downloaded through 4CAT.
✏️ New "Upload annotations" processor that lets you add new data fields to existing datasets. (1/2)
A small 4CAT update just in time for the holidays - v1.52!
📊 Processors for regression analysis and dataset statistics
🧭 Test LLM prompts from our prompt library with the PromptCompass processor
🤖 Use Deepseek and Gemini 3 APIs with LLM processors
🐛 Many bug fixes!
➡️ github.com/digitalmetho...
Just released: 4CAT 1.51 “The R is in the month”
Highlights:
📊 Classification evaluation: subpar F1 scores, now in 4CAT
🤖 New LLM processor options
#️⃣ Search by #hashtag on Telegram
🖼️ Image hasher: check for duplicate images!
🪰 A LOT of small bug fixes and improvements
github.com/digitalmetho...
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This 4CAT updates mostly comprises updates and bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as improvements to the Web UI (particularly the Explorer, which can now display downloaded dataset ...
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met.
But we're still studying social media like it's 2010.
We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up.
osf.io/preprints/so...
preprint w/ Richard Rogers
This 4CAT updates mostly comprises bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as a couple of new processors for statistical analysis of datasets and an implementation of PromptCompass as a ...
Hyperlink enthusiast.
(DMI tool updates to be found here - find us at digitalmethods.net !)
Digital Methods Initiative
This updates adds several new processors, to help working with image datasets and LLM-based annotations; many bug fixes and small QoL updates to processors; various bug fixes and updates to mapping...
enjoyed this "wayback studio" moment at @internetarchive.eu with @anthbrtn.com @iiil.li @idilg.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @digitalmethods.net @d-eepculture.bsky.social @publicdatalab.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & many more! ✨
Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers presenting their new book "Digital Methods: A Short Introduction" during the (warm!) DMI summer school 2025 #dmi25
🏴☠️ We just released a new version of Zeeschuimer, fixing various capture bugs.
⚠️ If you are already using Zeeschuimer it will unfortunately NOT be able to automatically update to this new version. Please re-install from tools.digitalmethods.net/zeeschuimer instead. Apologies for the inconvenience!
🗞️ A great deep dive in Dutch newspaper @nrc.nl, in which Elon Musk's tweets over the past few months are analysed after capturing them with our tool Zeeschuimer (tools.digitalmethods.net/zeeschuimer/)!
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
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jonathan w. y. gray
How do researchers, journalists & artists work with the Wayback Machine?
At a recent gathering in Amsterdam, we explored how web archives support digital investigations, platform research & media art — and how we can build better tools & collaborations.
👉 www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...
Musk op X: NRC analyseerde de vele duizenden tweets die de techmiljardair plaatste sinds hij begin dit jaar aantrad als informeel Trump-adviseur. Wat vertelt zijn eigen X-tijdlijn over Elon Musks poli...
Guest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do th...
