[Air-L] Sampling facebook pages

Noha Nagi noha.a.nagi at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 02:44:09 PDT 2014


Please note that I am not making a web survey, I am sampling observational
data (posts and comments) in four facebook pages.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Professors and colleagues,
>
> I was wondering if there are different sampling methods for internet data
> than the already known sampling methods.
>
> For my research, I was thinking of taking a *systematic random sample*
> from facebook posts on a each of four facebook pages. I have no information
> about the heterogeneity between the different pages according to any
> variable (gender, political affiliation...) so I thought it is not
> stratified nor cluster, and it will be more likely a systematic sample.
>
>
>     Is systematic sampling* logically right*?
>
>     Did any one come across *other sampling techniques for facebook pages*?
> or internet data in general?
>
>     Can anyone suggest *a book to read about this*?
>
>
> I would love to hear any advice from you.
>
>
> Yours,
> *Noha A.Nagi*
>



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*Noha A.Nagi*



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