Some Data Analysis

Hello Ktalkers,
This goes out to all the ‘technolists’ here in the village. Am stack in trying to find patterns on a project i have, I want to get insights from facebook groups (on posts and comments), in short i want to know if there is anyone with such expertise to help a friend here;

What am intending to do:

Extract facebook groups data ie posts and comments.
Analyse that data to a point of getting recurring patterns.

Anyone with an idea of how i should go about it your feedback is highly appreciated.

First of all who are these?

clustering

How will you access the FB Database in order to list all groups (hidden, public, secret, etc?). If you can access the database, then am sure you can find all statistics you need, else, ni ngumu…

Its a few facebook groups,like four of them, like have all the post+comments in a spreadsheet, don know if its possible using mayb extra softwares

You just understand

How should i go about it?

It is possible as long as they can access the database to save them in a file for further analysis. I know that there are some companies/ developers that are able to develop applications for FB but not sure they have full access to the raw backend databases

if you know how to code then Python or R. If not then u can use MS Excel with some addons

I saw a tutorial of one that does exactly that, with the example i saw i guess its like what i needed. But the problem now is to make sense of that data,

That is true considering that the data is generally unstructured for real quality analysis… You would have to then do a manual structuring before subjecting them to an analysis tool. Like have the comments in Excel and then add another column against each comment and put a code for each response depending on what you are looking for, then use other analysis tools (and they are very many) to now analyze and make sense of the whole set of data

unsupervised learning algos

Thank you. I feel this makes sense to my query. I will try this strategy, or are you good at it or may be you know of someone who can do it?

I haven’t done sentiment analysis but I’ll get into it when I get into text mining. I can give you links to sentiment analysis in R and Python. I am not very proficient in Python but I am good at R. Kama unajua coding in R. Tawesa saidia wewe with resources

Wah, noma kwangu. Am not good at any prog language, if there is a way i can get what i want the better

wewe hutoa wapi kazi?

Niko job, I am into programming to develop solutions that we currently face in the market. So nafanya research mingi na ndio maana nimefocus on R because it’s very powerful when it comes to statistics. Saii ndio najifunza Python mdogo mdogo

I am learning R maybe I can assist in r programming .