[Air-L] Research inquiry

[Shulman, Stu]

Check out InfoExtractor:

http://www.infoextractor.org/

Chirag Shah has been ahead of the field on this for years.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Harju Anu <anu.harju at aalto.fi> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> it seems I cannot use the NodeXL as my Excel version for Mac is not
> compatible. Anyhow, it might not be what I need. What I need is to be able
> to extract the user commentary from YouTube from a specific videos. It
> seems this is not possible with NodeXL as it seems to concentrate on
> visualisation of data. I will carry out a qualitative analysis of the
> comment exchanges between viewers.
>
> I tried to figure out the Google API, I'm under the impression there is a
> command that would allow you to extract the commentary to Excel by way of
> the =importXML query, but obviously I need the command line…and I'm not an
> engineer or a coder, unfortunately.
>
> Would there be anyone who would know how to do this? I appreciate any
> comments and suggestions and thank you all in advance :)
>
> Best,
> Anu
>
> Anu Harju
>
> anu.harju at aalto.fi<mailto:anu.harju at aalto.fi>
> @ablatiivi
>
> Doctoral Candidate, MA, BA
> Department of Management Studies
> Unit of Organizational Communication
> Aalto University School of Business
> Helsinki
> Finland
>
> On 28 Aug 2014, at 09:06, Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com<mailto:
> noha.a.nagi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions. Thanks Anja, Stu, Jacob,
> Lauri and Joan !
> I have tried and looked at all your suggestions.
>
> What fits most to my research requirements is DiscoverText and NodeXL. I am
> still doing some trials with both of them to decide the best one for me but
> I have a good understanding now of their functionality and of other
> software tools.
>
> I would love to help anyone with this if you ask.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Anja Bechmann <anjabechmann at gmail.com
> <mailto:anjabechmann at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Noha and others, try www.digitalfootprints.dk<
> http://www.digitalfootprints.dk> - we have free access
> for small scale studies now.
>
> Best, Anja
>
> Anja Bechmann
> Associate Professor, PhD
> Aarhus University, Denmark
> +45 5133 5138
>
> .....this message is sent from my iPhone ....
>
> Den 04/08/2014 kl. 22.28 skrev Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com<mailto:
> noha.a.nagi at gmail.com>>:
>
> Dear Professors and colleagues,
>
> I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area
> and
> looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical
> facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages.
>
> Data needed include:
> - posts;
> - comments;
> - date &time of posts and comments; and
> - some information about people that post and comment
> (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get).
>
> I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not
> the
> *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim
> to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time.
>
>
> *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?*
>
>
> I appreciate your advice/comments,
> Thank you all,
> Yours,
> *Noha A.Nagi*
> Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University
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