[Air-L] Nvivo for facebook pages

[Patricia Rossini]

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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> 
> Marisa von Bülow
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