Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
An ever-increasing volume of social media data facilitates studies into behavior patterns, consumption habits, and B2B exchanges, so called Big Data. Whilst many tools exist for platforms such as Twitter, there is a noticeable absence of tools for Facebook-based studies that are both scalable and accessible to social scientists. In this paper, we present FBWatch, an open source web application providing the core functionality to fetch public Facebook profiles en masse in their entirety and analyse relationships between profiles both online and offline. We argue that FBWatch is a robust interface for social researchers and business analysts to identify analyze and visualize relationships, discourse and interactions between public Facebook entities and their audiences.
Recommended Citation
Brückner, Lukas; Caton, Simon; and Hall, Margeret A., "FBWatch: Extracting, Analyzing and Visualizing Public Facebook Profiles" (2015). Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Proceedings & Presentations. 8.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/interdiscipinformaticsfacproc/8
Comments
This document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 DE License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DC): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/.
Published in Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Workshop - Advances in Service Science.