[Air-L] Nvivo for facebook pages

Fabio Gouveia fgouveiafiocruz at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 10:39:07 PDT 2017


Hi,

I´ve been using Facepager for some time and I love it. It really
requires a little bit of knowledge on how to make the calls, but it´s
really a good tool to invest time in. Some issues on the Mac version
and a little bit of knowledge on the different versions of the API to
get reactions downloaded right. I do agree with Bernhard that working
with facebook data, due to the lack of transparency, it´s really
complicated.

best,

Fábio C Gouveia
Scientrometrics and Altmetrics Researcher
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Brazil
fgouveiafiocruz at gmail.com

2017-04-19 14:04 GMT-03:00 Patricia Rossini <patyrossini at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I would strongly advise against using NVivo to scrape Facebook data - I have seen the same issues that Marisa has identified - missing data, problems to import. Moreover, the NCapture tool only talks to NVivo, so you’re not ‘free' to analyze the data elsewhere.
> People tend to have good results with Netvizz. I use Facepager, which is an open source software created by and for academics. It requires a little knowledge on the APIs to make the right calls, but works like a charm and exports results to CSV.
>
> best,
>
> Patricia Rossini
> Postdoctoral researcher  | School of Information Studies
> Syracuse University
> www.patriciarossini.com <http://www.patriciarossini.com/>
>
>> Em 19 de abr de 2017, à(s) 12:43, Marisa von Bülow <marisavonbulow at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>> Our research group at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) has used
>> NVivo/NCapture to capture and analyze data of Facebook pages, but recently
>> has bumped into two serious issues:
>>
>> a) the dataset won't open in NVivo (when we asked for help, NVivo personnel
>> said this happened because of date problems, which we have not been able to
>> solve). We just switched to Netvizz and then opened the dataset on NVivo to
>> do content analysis of posts.
>> b) we have noticed differences in the amount of information gathered by
>> NCapture in comparison with Netvizz. There are chunks of periods in which
>> posts have not been collected by NCapture (and we confirmed that the data
>> is there), which has surprised us, because we had not previously had this
>> problem.
>>
>> I am happy to talk to you about these and other issues.
>>
>> Marisa
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:51 AM, mona arslan <mona_arslan at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I would be very happy to talk to anyone who has managed to capture content
>>> from facebook page for NVIVO. Facebook pages as a data set specifically is
>>> my interest( not groups or conversation and not as a PDF, but as a dataset)
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>> Mona Arslan,
>>>
>>> Teacher  Assistant  (AASTM) and PhD Candidate (Digital Media)
>>> Founder of The Egyptian Social Media Initiative
>>> @monarslan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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