extracting and analyzing discussion data with google sheets and google analytics
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Extracting and Analysing Discussion Data with Google Sheets and Google
Analytics
Martin Hawksey@mhawksey
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About you…
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Objectives◊ Introduce Google Sheets and
Google Analytics
◊ Highlight opportunities around discussion data
◊ *Inspire* you to do more
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Google Sheets 101
Limit 2 million cells
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Say hello to Google Apps Script
CC-BY Google – Google Apps Script, 13-03-2012
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Apps Script benefits
◊ Free
◊ Scripts can run 24/7
◊ Access data
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Twitter in Education‽
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Consider Twitter in Education…
ActivePassive
Dialogic
Transmission
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In-class Backchannel
Uses: ad hoc class discussion, real-time commenting, recording divergent viewpoints
Benefits: engages less vocal students, archives otherwise ephemeral comments
Outside of Class Discussions
Uses: extend class discussions, exchange comments about readings or questions about assignments
Benefits: community building, continuity between class sessions
In-class Directed Discussion
Uses: Open or guided questions with student responses collected for later analysis
Benefits: engages all students in discussions in large lecture classes
Tracking Activities
Uses: find and follow instructor experts in the field, or key topics
Benefits: exposure to the lager cultural conversation about the class material
Lightly Structured Activities
Uses: solicit course feedback, offer ambient office hours, poll class, language or writing practice
Benefits: flexibility, availability, scalability
Metacognitive/Reflective ActivitiesUses: students report on self learning, articulate their difficulties, recap the most valuable lesson of the day
Benefits: fosters critical thinking
Institutional communication
Uses: community outreach, alerts, announcements
Instructor Communication
Uses: announcements, syllabus changes, reminders
Pedagogical Communication
Uses: sharing timely links and resources
Student Activity
Dial
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Tran
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Passive ActiveMark Sample’s Twitter Adoption Matrix
Patterns are… …left behind
Courtesy Marc Smith http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/2013-nodexl-social-media-network-analysis11
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Twitter Search
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Data….
<html>
<rss><XML> {JSON
}API
.csv
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Twitter Search API – Single tweet
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Twitter Search API Limits
◊ Data from last ~7 days◊ Last 18,000 tweets for search
term ◊ Developer ‘Rules of the Road’ on
storage
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Twitter Archiving Google Sheet (TAGS)
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TAGS
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tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/
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Google Sheet benefits
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Tips and tricks…
◊ Search operators (e.g. AND, OR, from: ..)
◊ Built in formula (QUERY, FREQUENCY)
◊ Add-ons
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How to geocode…
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Playing with TAGS
http://go.alt.ac.uk/TAGSGeoRef
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Data wrangling
Data Access
Data Shapes
Data Flows
©Patrick Goossens 2009-03-01 12:11:05http://www.flickr.com/8862589@N07/3333965118/
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Breaking the cell…◊ Copy and paste
◊ Dark social judo with IFTTT
◊ import.io
◊ APIs
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IFTTT
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Import.io
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Breaking the cell…◊ Copy and paste
◊ Dark social judo with IFTTT
◊ import.io
◊ APIs
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Social Network Analysis
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History
◊ Network theory
◊ 1930s Moreno & Jennings
Moreno, J. L. (1934). Who shall survive? Washington, DC: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company.
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Nodes and edges
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Recipe recommendation
Teng, C. Y., Lin, Y. R., & Adamic, L. A. (2012, June). Recipe recommendation using ingredient networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 298-307). ACM.
cinammon substitutes
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Graph metrics and measures◊ Centrality ◊ Cohesion ◊ Density ◊ Betweenness
Courtesy Marc Smith http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/2013-nodexl-social-media-network-analysis
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Heather has high
betweenness
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SNA and LA
The social network diagrams can be used to identify:◊ isolated students◊ facilitator-centric network patterns ◊ group malfunction◊ Users that bridge smaller clustered
networks◊ …
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SocioViz
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TAGSExplorer
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nodexl.codeplex.com
Gone premium :(
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TAGS + NodeXL
https://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/10/using-google-spreadsheet-to-feed-nodexl/
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The bloody VLE
Data Access
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A different approach…
VLE
ScriptGoogle
Analytics
Web View
• Identity stripped• Text processing producing counts
BETA
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Google Analytics … beyond page views
The Analytics terms of service, which all Analytics customers must adhere
to, prohibits sending personally identifiable information (PII) to
Analytics (such as names, social security numbers, email addresses, or
any similar data)
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Almost real time with Queue Time
Used to collect offline / latent hits. The value represents the time delta (in milliseconds) between when the hit
being reported occurred and the time the hit was sent.
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Why Google Analytics
…. as a framework to explore interactions across platforms
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Data flows with Google Analytics
https://mashe.hawksey.info/2016/04/pushing-canvas-lms-discussion-data-to-google-analytics-tips-on-google-analytics-api-integration-batch-collection-and-queue-time
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Thank you!
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