[Air-L] Nvivo for facebook pages

Thu Apr 20 04:54:35 PDT 2017

Yes, Deen! Our research group has turned to Python (could have been R,
Maurice, but we chose Python for now) to collect data on Twitter and we are
now trying to learn how to do use it for Facebook. Not easy... we will
definitely check out your code, many thanks for sharing!

However, even Python and R scraping face the issues pointed out by Bernhard
Rieder, don't they? I mean, we are still dealing with incomplete datasets,
which we can only speculate about. Right?
Have you followed his suggestion, that is, have you compared retrieved data
using Python, R, Netvizz ...?

Marisa

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Deen Freelon <dfreelon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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IPOL - UnB/University of Brasilia