[Air-L] Learning more about social media analytics

[Robert Ackland]

I can recommend the open source and free SocialMediaLab R package 
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SocialMediaLab/index.html) 
which was created at the VOSON Lab (ANU) by Tim Graham and myself, with 
contributions by Chung-hong Chan (MZES, University of Mannheim).

SocialMediaLab aims to be a "Swiss army knife" for collecting network 
and text data via public APIs for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

The version on CRAN (0.23.2) will collect comment text from Facebook 
pages, but to get the text of the Facebook posts themselves you will 
need to install version 0.23.3 which is hosted on github: 
https://github.com/vosonlab/SocialMediaLab

You can find more information about SocialMediaLab here: 
http://vosonlab.net/SocialMediaLab

Tutorial materials are here: http://vosonlab.net/SocialMediaLab

I am running a "Big Data Analysis for Social Scientists" training course 
at the University of Melbourne 29 Jan - 2 Feb, where there will be a 
focus on R (SocialMediaLab for data collection, igraph for network 
analysis and other R packages for text analysis) and other tools (Gephi 
network visualisation, VOSON for hyperlink network collection).  See here:

https://www.acspri.org.au/summer-program-2018/big-data-analysis-social-scientists

Regards,

Rob

-- 

Dr Robert Ackland
Associate Professor, School of Sociology and ANU Centre for Social 
Research and Methods
Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab 
<http://vosonlab.net>
Australian National University



On 07/01/18 14:08, Virginia Balfour wrote:
> Me too!  I'm doing qualitative research of an open Facebook page (for a movie) and would love to know of any scraping tools which will allow me to gather contents of posts and comments.
> Ginny
> QUT Brisbane
>
> Virginia Balfour
>
>
>> On 7 Jan. 2018, at 06:45, Andreas M. Panagopoulos <ampanago at jour.auth.gr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Every platform Facebook, twitter, Linkedin, YouTube etc provide tutorials how to use analytics ( If this is your question).There is Literature and many papers how Journalists use analytics (this is my dissertation-in progress- for greek online media). If you need references and papers please feel free to ask.
>> Andreas
>> Παραθέτοντας από Luis Hestres <Luis.Hestres at utsa.edu>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I’m interested in learning more about social media analytics. I’ve already taken the excellent introduction by Jean Burgess and Alex Burns through the FutureLearn site where they focus on data collection and analysis via TAGS, Tableau and Gephi. Is anyone aware of other introductory materials that are similar or build on that course? Books, MOOCs, videos, etc. are all appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Luis
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