The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released an updated version of SMILE, Social Media Intelligence & Learning Environment (formerly the Social Media Macroscope). The platform is a free GUI wrapper/application that does not require coding knowledge, for collecting social media data from both the YouTube and reddit APIs, as well as for engaging in some basic analytics of that data, including topic modeling, network analysis, named-entity recognition, phrase mining, text classification, sentiment analysis, and tokenization. Access is available on the sign in page with an ORCID or through your university. Feedback is welcome by the developers: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/132147707
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