4 TOOLS FOR 4 DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA

NETWORK ANALYSIS

INSTAGRAM: INSTAGRAM SCRAPER

• The tool is available here: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/instagram/#

• You need a clientID to use the tool (follow the instructions on the tool)

• Your input is hastags or geo-coordinates (from Google maps).

• The results are available via the output button in the top

• The csv includes links to pictures that you can open in Google Spreadsheets

• To download pictures from the csv use Firefox and 'downemall' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

• To take a folder of pictures and show them next to each other use Contact Sheet maker: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22028/contactsheetmaker

• You can visualize quantitative data in RAW: http://raw.densitydesign.org/ (watch instruction video)

FACEBOOK: NETVIZZ

• The tool 'Netvizz' is an App that you add to your FB profile

• You can use the search function in Netvizz to find relevant pages and groups

• Your input is IDs from pages or OPEN groups + a date-range

• You get the ID of a page here: https://lookup-id.com/

• Your data comes as a zip-file with 1 gdf file and 3 tab-files.

• The tab-files can be opened in Google Spreadsheets

• You can visualize quantitative data in RAW: http://raw.densitydesign.org/ (watch instruction video)

• Watch this intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkKPcN7V7Q

GOOGLE: SEARCH BOX

• The tool is the searchbox

• Use the search operators on the slides to get useful searches. Especially use intyp:pdf after your searches to get PDF documents.

• Your data should be a list of PDFs that is organized in a folder.

• Down download many PDFs into a folder use Firefox and 'downemall' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

• Help each other and write on the discussion pages of Moodle if you are in trouble. Also - search for video tutorials on the web!! There are plenty of them around.

TWITTER: TCAT

• Use TCAT to fetch data from FB - NB! I need to start the data-collection and Twitter only produces data forward in time

• Decide on a list of words and #'s that are relevant to use as the basis for data collection

• Look at the analysis-part of TCAT and think about the kind of outputs you want: http://tcat.cadm.dk/analysis/ (password is available on Moodle)

• The tab-files can be opened in Google Spreadsheets

• You can visualize quantitative data in RAW: http://raw.densitydesign.org/ (watch instruction video)