[Air-L] Nvivo for facebook pages

[Deen Freelon]

If you're not afraid of a little Python, here's another data collection 
alternative (written by yours truly): 
https://github.com/dfreelon/fb_scrape_public

Just two lines of code and you're off to the races, plus it collects all 
the new reactions ("haha," "love," etc) and is robust to network errors. 
It's also free, which helps. /DEEN


On 4/19/2017 1:39 PM, Fabio Gouveia wrote:
> 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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