Communalytic is multifunctional, computational social science research tool for studying online communities and online discourse.
Communalytic can perform a wide variety of data-centric tasks such as collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing publicly available data from Reddit, Twitter, and CrowdTangle. Besides being a versatile social media data collection tool, Communalytic is also a powerful and feature-rich data analytics platform. It has 4 built-in data analytic modules that can automatically perform the following types of analysis: 1) toxicity analysis, 2) social network analysis, 3) sentiment analysis and 4) Twitter bot detection.
Collect
Collect public data from Reddit, Twitter and CrowdTangle (Facebook/Instagram) or import your own dataset
Process
Process and extract frequently used keywords/emojis, engagements and automatically build various types of networks
Analyze
Analyze text and patterns of relations to automatically pinpoint toxic and anti-social interactions, detect bots, assess posts' sentiments, identify influencers, map shared interests and the spread of misinformation, and detect signs of possible coordination among seemingly disparate actors
Visualize
Visualize 1) two-mode semantic networks, 2) link-sharing networks, and 3) reply/retweet signed-communication networks, where each tie in the network stores toxicity-related scores. (For Twitter networks, each node can also store bot-related scores.)
https://edu.communalytic.com
Edu Features
Communalytic Edu is designed for educators to teach and students to learn about social media data analytics and social network analysis.
- Account Type: Free
- Account Caps: ≤ 30K records shared across 3 datasets
- Simultaneously Run Multiple Data Collectors: 1 Reddit, 1 Twitter & 1 CrowdTangle
- Built-in Network Visualizer: Easy-to-use network analysis and visualization module
- CSV Import: Ability to import an existing dataset from a CSV file
- Collaboration Friendly: Access to various team collaboration features
- Reddit: Live data collection for ≤ 7 consecutive days
- Twitter Threads: Public replies (≤ 10K) to any public tweet posted within the previous 7 days (req. Twitter's Developers Account)
- Twitter Academic Research Product Track: Not supported
- Crowdtangle Facebook/Instagram URL Search: Public Facebook/Instagram posts (≤ 10k ) that shared the same URL(req. CrowdTangle's Account)
- For More Details See: Parameters For Data Collection with Communalytic - A Summary of Platform-specific Data Usage Caps for Communalytic Edu and Pro
- Twitter Bot Detection w/Botometer API
- Toxicity Analysis w/Google Perspective API
https://pro.communalytic.com
Pro Features
Communalytic Pro is designed for the academic research community and is ideal for large scale academic research projects. It provides researchers with the resources and infrastructure necessary for conducting independent research in the public interest.
- Account Type: 6-mo. subscription to support site infrastructure (server-side data collection, storage, processing, analysis and visualization) $349
- Account Caps: ≤ 10M records shared across 50 datasets
- Simultaneously Run Multiple Data Collectors: 2 Reddit, 1 Twitter & 1 CrowdTangle
- Built-in Network Visualizer: Easy-to-use network analysis and visualization module
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CSV Import: Ability to import an existing dataset from a CSV file
(NEW!) Twitter JSON Files Import: Ability to import an existing Twitter dataset from JSON/GZ files - Collaboration Friendly: Access to various team collaboration features
- Reddit: Live & historical data collection for ≤ 31 consecutive days
- Twitter Threads: Public replies (≤ 500K/mo.) to any public tweet posted within the previous 7 days(req. Twitter's Developers Account.) (Users w/ Twitter Academic Research Product Track is not subjected to 500K/mo. & 7-days limit)
- Twitter Academic Research Product Track: ≤ 10M Tweets/month via 'full-archive (historical) search' (req. Twitter's approval)
- CrowdTangle Facebook/Instagram URL Search: Public Facebook/Instagram posts that shared the same URL (req. CrowdTangle Account)
- For More Details See: Parameters For Data Collection with Communalytic - A Summary of Platform-specific Data Usage Caps for Communalytic Edu and Pro
- Twitter Bot Detection w/Botometer API
- Toxicity Analysis w/Google Perspective API
Case Studies and Tutorials
New to Communalytic? We have prepared a number of videos and text-based tutorials to help you get started.
Toxicity Analysis of a Twitter Thread: Analyzing Replies to President Trump’s Tweet about Contracting the Novel Coronavirus
Social Media Lab’s Computational Social Science (CSS) Bootcamp – Summer 2021 (Video recordings + Slides)
How to Cite:
If you are using Communalytic in an academic publication, please cite us as:
Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2021). Communalytic: A Research Tool For Studying Online Communities and Online Discourse. Available at https://Communalytic.com