Communalytic is a Research Tool for Studying Online Discourse.
Communalytic can examine large amounts of data from various social media platforms to automatically pinpoint toxic and anti-social interactions, identify influencers, facilitate content analysis, map shared interests and detect signs of possible coordination among seemingly disparate actors in online discourse.
Collect
Collect data from various social media platforms including Reddit, Twitter and Facebook/Instagram (via CrowdTangle) or import your own dataset
Extract
Extract and visualize emojis, keywords and engagements as emoji/word clouds, reaction box plots and other summary stats about your dataset
Analyze
Analyze text and patterns of relations to detect toxic and anti-social interactions, identify influencers, map shared interests and detect signs of possible coordination among seemingly disparate actors
Visualize
Visualize two-mode semantic networks and who-replies-to-whom signed communication networks with each tie storing toxicity-related scores to uncover hidden patterns and correlations
https://collector.socialmediadata.org
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
- Reddit: live data collection for ≤ 7 consecutive days
- Twitter Threads: ≤10k tweets per dataset (req. Twitter's Developers Account)
- Twitter Academic Research Track: not supported
- Facebook/Instagram URL Search: ≤ 10k posts per dataset (req. CrowdTangle's Account)
- CSV Import: not supported
https://pro.communalytic.com
Pro Features
Communalytic Pro is designed to serve the needs of the academic research community. It provides academic researchers with the resources and infrastructure necessary to access the data they need.
- Account Type: 6-mo. subscription to support site infrastructure $349
- Account Caps: ≤ 10M records shared across 50 datasets
- Reddit: live & historical data collection for ≤ 31 consecutive days
- Twitter Threads: ≤ 500k tweets per month (req. Twitter's Developers Account)
- Twitter Academic Research Track (Coming Soon): ≤ 10M Tweets/month incl. full historical tweets (req. Twitter's approval)
- Facebook/Instagram URL Search: historical collection for ≤ 31 consecutive days (req. CrowdTangle Account)
- CSV Import: Import of an existing dataset from a CSV file
Case Studies and Tutorials
New to Communalytic? We have prepared a number of video 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
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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 Discourse. Available at https://Communalytic.com