How to export data collected from Twitter with FireAnt

[Ilaria Devetti]

Good morning,

I'm a student and I would like to use FireAnt for my dissertation, but I can't understand something. I would like to collect tweets in a certain language and those that contain certain keywords. What I don't understand is how to export the data I see on the top-right of the screen in csv or xls. I'm following the instructions of the guide, but the documents I create are empty, in the xls file I only see the names of the columns I want to export, but nothing more.

I'm using FireAnt on a Mac and I saved my dataset with the format json.

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards,

Ilaria Devetti

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

What you have to remember is the top right of the screen is the *input* window. What you need to do is apply one of more filters (or just hit reset to generate an exact copy of the input) with the results showing in the *output* window on the bottom right. You can then export the results in the *output* window via the menu options.

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

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[Ilaria Devetti]

Hi,

thank you very much for your help!

Ilaria

[k4t...@gmail.com]

Hi!

I'm kind of having similar problems ...  Let me check I understand what I'm looking at.  The top right window is the input, the details of the file in the top left window.  The bottom right (Filtered Table) is the output window?  Which may or may not be filtered?  If there are no filters to add, I just click Show, right?  But this is currently not giving me anything.  So I need to do something in the bottom left window first.  I choose a filter, say, id_user, and click Apply.  The bottom right Filtered Table still doesn't Show me anything.  In the bottom left window, I've left the search box blank, the radio button on Or.  Show does nothing but Find gives me, in the All hits box of the bottom left window, most but not all (872 of 952) of the tweets collected and displayed in the top right box (input window).  I can now choose some of those in All hits and move them to the Included hits box, still bottom left window.  The bottom right Filtered Table still gives me nothing when I click Show.  At this point I'm not sure what I would be exporting.

What I actually want to do is collect hourly blocks of tweets and I'm not sure what the best way is to do this (I don't want to have to manually collect hourly files!) - either to simply collect tweets over the total period I want and then break these up into hourly files (export Raw Filtered Data as .xls then manually divide up into blocks) or to apply filters (created_at, or timestamp_ms).  Either way, I'm getting nothing showing in the bottom right Filtered Table, so not surprisingly (given your explanation below) I'm getting empty text and excel files.

Please help!

Thanks

Kathryn

On Saturday, 1 October 2016 04:16:22 UTC+2, Laurence Anthony wrote:

Hi,

What you have to remember is the top right of the screen is the *input* window. What you need to do is apply one of more filters (or just hit reset to generate an exact copy of the input) with the results showing in the *output* window on the bottom right. You can then export the results in the *output* window via the menu options.

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

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Professor
Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Waseda University
3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
E-mail: antho...@gmail.com
WWW: http://www.laurenceanthony.net/
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On 29 September 2016 at 20:13, Ilaria Devetti <ila...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good morning,

I'm a student and I would like to use FireAnt for my dissertation, but I can't understand something. I would like to collect tweets in a certain language and those that contain certain keywords. What I don't understand is how to export the data I see on the top-right of the screen in csv or xls. I'm following the instructions of the guide, but the documents I create are empty, in the xls file I only see the names of the columns I want to export, but nothing more.

I'm using FireAnt on a Mac and I saved my dataset with the format json.

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards,

Ilaria Devetti

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[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

As with all issues of this nature, first, I recommend that you start simple.

Create a simple csv file with the following columns:

name,value

a,1

b,2

c,3

Now, load this file into FireAnt and do the following:

1) select the "name" filter

2) search for blank (nothing) or hit the reset button and make sure all the rows are shown

3) click apply

4) make sure the output table shows the same results as the input table

5) export your results.

Now, repeat the above, but this time, try to export only the "b" row.

Once you complete the above, I think you'll be ready to tackle your more complex Twitter data.

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

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Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Waseda University
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[k4t...@gmail.com]

Ok, yes, you're right - that *was* a much more sensible way to go about it.  Thanks!