CMNS 801 - Computer assisted content analysis and datasets creation

Topic covered:

Automated text analysis using Nvivo
Computer assisted text analysis in Nvivo
Building datasets with Ncapture
Reuse existing Datasets on Archive.org
Create web archives using Webrecorder.io

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1. Computer assisted content analysis How to qualitatively analyze medium to large corpus of texts Alberto Lusoli, Simon Fraser University. School of Communication
2. Automated coding Computer-assisted coding Broad textual analysis
3. Computer based analysis Suitable for quantitative studies High reliability Validity might be limited
4. Automated analysis in Nvivo Sentiment Autocoding
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6. Using software to facilitate the human coding of large corpus of texts
7. Content analysis with Nvivo An example with a large dataset of tweets collected automatically (more on this next later) Download the project here: http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-pc http://bit.ly/ca-nvivo-mac
9. How to qualitatively analyze a dataset? Just like any other corpus of text. By coding it (inductively or deductively).
15. A non-technical guide to content scraping
16. Ncapture for Nvivo Quick&Dirty application for collecting tweets, FB posts, youtube comments and webpages Install the Chrome Extension
17. Ncapture for Nvivo When done, you should see a new icon on your extensions list (click the More Option if it does not appear in the toolbar)
18. Supported data Webpages (PDF) Twitter tweets (hashtags, individual profiles tweets) FB pages posts and comments Youtube comments (PC version only)
19. Capturing a page Go to the page you want to capture Click on the Ncapture Select Webpage as PDF Check the progress in the Chrome Capture page In Nvivo, go to Sources > internal And click Import from Ncapture If the captured page does not appear in the list, check the Download folder
20. Capturing Tweets Login on yourTwitter account Search for something or visit a Twitter profile page Click the Ncapture Icon Select “Tweets as Dataset” Authorize the App Check progress page (stop the collection as some point..) Go to Nvivo and, as done previously, import the Dataset as an Internal Source
21. Capturing FB posts Go to a Facebook page (while being logged in) and follow the same steps done for Twitter. Collect as Dataset Authorize the app Let NCapture collect data Import the Dataset as an Internal source in Nvivo Can you think of privacy and confidentiality issues?
22. Gephi integration SNA tool. You can use tweet networks Need training? Research Common!
23. Web archiving Search the archive Search keyword on Wayback machine Search website on Wayback machine
24. Build your own archive Webrecorder.io Archive webpages Archive infinite scroll pages Download archives and visualize them with Webrecorder Player http://rhizome.org/software/
25. Experiencing the old web http://oldweb.today/
26. Voyant https://voyant-tools.org
27. For questions or help, write me at: alusoli@sfu.ca THANK YOU