Facebook is becoming an essential tool for more than just family and friends. Discover how Cheltenham Township (USA), a diverse community just outside of Philadelphia, deals with major issues such as the Bill Cosby trial, everyday traffic issues, sewer I/I problems and lost cats and dogs. And yes, theft.

Communities work when they're connected and exchanging information. What and who are the essential forces making a positive impact, and when and how do conversational threads get directed or misdirected?

Use Any Facebook Public Group

You can leverage the examples here for any public Facebook group. For an example of the source code used to collect this data, and a quick start docker image, take a look at the following project: facebook-group-scrape.

Data Sources

There are 4 csv files in the dataset, with data from the following 5 public Facebook groups:

• Unofficial Cheltenham Township
• Elkins Park Happenings!
• Free Speech Zone
• Cheltenham Lateral Solutions
• Cheltenham Township Residents

post.csv

These are the main posts you will see on the page. It might help to take a quick look at the page. Commas in the msg field have been replaced with {COMMA}, and apostrophes have been replaced with {APOST}.

• gid Group id (5 different Facebook groups)
• pid Main Post id
• id Id of the user posting
• name User's name
• timeStamp
• shares
• url
• msg Text of the message posted.
• likes Number of likes

comment.csv

These are comments to the main post. Note, Facebook postings have comments, and comments on comments.

• gid Group id
• pid Matches Main Post identifier in post.csv
• cid Comment Id.
• timeStamp
• id Id of user commenting
• name Name of user commenting
• rid Id of user responding to first comment
• msg Message

like.csv

These are likes and responses. The two keys in this file (pid,cid) will join to post and comment respectively.

• gid Group id
• pid Matches Main Post identifier in post.csv
• cid Matches Comments id.
• response Response such as LIKE, ANGRY etc.
• id The id of user responding
• name Name of the user responding

member.csv

These are all the members in the group. Some members never, or rarely, post or comment. You may find multiple entries in this table for the same person. The name of the individual never changes, but they change their profile picture. Each profile picture change is captured in this table. Facebook gives users a new id in this table when they change their profile picture.

• gid Group id
• id Id of the member
• name Name of the member
• url URL of the member

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