I can recommend the open source and free SocialMediaLab R package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SocialMediaLab/index.html) which was created at the VOSON Lab (ANU) by Tim Graham and myself, with contributions by Chung-hong Chan (MZES, University of Mannheim). SocialMediaLab aims to be a "Swiss army knife" for collecting network and text data via public APIs for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The version on CRAN (0.23.2) will collect comment text from Facebook pages, but to get the text of the Facebook posts themselves you will need to install version 0.23.3 which is hosted on github: https://github.com/vosonlab/SocialMediaLab You can find more information about SocialMediaLab here: http://vosonlab.net/SocialMediaLab Tutorial materials are here: http://vosonlab.net/SocialMediaLab I am running a "Big Data Analysis for Social Scientists" training course at the University of Melbourne 29 Jan - 2 Feb, where there will be a focus on R (SocialMediaLab for data collection, igraph for network analysis and other R packages for text analysis) and other tools (Gephi network visualisation, VOSON for hyperlink network collection). See here: https://www.acspri.org.au/summer-program-2018/big-data-analysis-social-scien... Regards, Rob -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, School of Sociology and ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab <http://vosonlab.net> Australian National University On 07/01/18 14:08, Virginia Balfour wrote:
Me too! I'm doing qualitative research of an open Facebook page (for a movie) and would love to know of any scraping tools which will allow me to gather contents of posts and comments. Ginny QUT Brisbane
Virginia Balfour
On 7 Jan. 2018, at 06:45, Andreas M. Panagopoulos <ampanago@jour.auth.gr> wrote:
Hi, Every platform Facebook, twitter, Linkedin, YouTube etc provide tutorials how to use analytics ( If this is your question).There is Literature and many papers how Journalists use analytics (this is my dissertation-in progress- for greek online media). If you need references and papers please feel free to ask. Andreas Παραθέτοντας από Luis Hestres <Luis.Hestres@utsa.edu>:
Hello,
I’m interested in learning more about social media analytics. I’ve already taken the excellent introduction by Jean Burgess and Alex Burns through the FutureLearn site where they focus on data collection and analysis via TAGS, Tableau and Gephi. Is anyone aware of other introductory materials that are similar or build on that course? Books, MOOCs, videos, etc. are all appreciated.
Thanks,
Luis
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