title: Big Data Applications in Social Media Research: The Experience of Unsuccessful Data Analysis of Ukrainian Facebook
abstract: This article showcases a detailed description of the first stage of research on the discourse of Ukrainian opinion leaders on Facebook conducted by a team of researchers representing MGIMO University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Convinced that it is Facebook that serves as the primary means of communication of politicians with the population in Ukraine, the team built a data base consisting of posts written over a 10-month perio
journal: Journal of International Analytics