Borasky Research Journal Google+ Page Update 2011-03-20
For a variety of reasons, I have replaced the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit, Code Like A Pirate and Project Kipling with a new, modular appliance called the Data Journalism Developer Studio. All of the software found in those three appliances can be installed via scripts provided in the new appliance. Links:
Posted by Ed Borasky at 00:22
Is their a tutorial describing how to use this? I’d like to use it to monitor analyze social media campaigns.
Not yet – there’s a “Getting Started” PDF that shows how to bring the machine up in VirtualBox. Are your campaigns using Facebook? I don’t have any Facebook data acquisition software in the tool kit – Facebook’s terms of service are too restrictive. You’d need to get Facebook data externally, via Viralheat or some other monitoring platform.
Right now I’m more interested in using this tool kit to help analyze and optimize the spread of web content being created for a client (e.g. blog posts, videos, articles, etc.) This Toolkit may or may not be applicable. I am just trying to understand what the actual capabilities are.
If you’re a Perl programmer, most of the web scraping and other data collection modules from CPAN are included, and I can add any others from CPAN easily. If you’re not a Perl programmer, you’re probably better off getting a subscription to Viralheat to collect the data and using the Viralheat API to bring the data into the appliance for analysis. That’s how I deal with Facebook, video and blogs – Twitter is the only service I access directly at the moment.
Ok, I’ve downloaded and have it running.. is there any notes about what do do first? how what packages do what?
Which version did you download? ISO file / LiveDVD or Virtual Machine (OVF) format? The Getting Started Guide is written for the ISO, but I can put one up for OVF if you want, depending on which virtualizer you’re using.
http://meb.tw/cczYXG
Thank you so much for creating this – I´ve been waiting for years for someone with the precious combination of brains and heart to put this together and share it with non-technicians like me! You can´t imagine the adventures I´ve been through to get access to this kind of tool for psychographic experiments and methodology development.
Here´s a bit about what I want to use it for:
http://mattiasostmar.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/how-ideas-spread-a-theory-i-long-to-test/
And here´s some API´s to what I´ve done so far:
http://uclassify.com/browse/prfekt
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