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Mastering Social Media Mining with R. Extract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R

Mastering Social Media Mining with R. Extract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R

Vikram Garg, Sharan Kumar Ravindran

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With an increase in the number of users on the web, the content generated has increased substantially, bringing in the need to gain insights into the untapped gold mine that is social media data. For computational statistics, R has an advantage over other languages in providing readily-available data extraction and transformation packages, making it easier to carry out your ETL tasks. Along with this, its data visualization packages help users get a better understanding of the underlying data distributions while its range of standard statistical packages simplify analysis of the data.

This book will teach you how powerful business cases are solved by applying machine learning techniques on social media data. You will learn about important and recent developments in the field of social media, along with a few advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth). Through practical examples, you will access data from R using APIs of various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Blogger, and other networks. We will provide you with detailed explanations on the implementation of various use cases using R programming.
With this handy guide, you will be ready to embark on your journey as an independent social media analyst.
  • 1. Fundaments of Social Media Mining
  • 2. Get Trending with Twitter
  • 3. Find Friends on Facebook
  • 4. Getting Jobs on LinkedIn
  • 5. Lets build Software with GitHub
  • 6. More Networks
  • Title: Mastering Social Media Mining with R. Extract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R
  • Author: Vikram Garg, Sharan Kumar Ravindran
  • Original title: Mastering Social Media Mining with R. Extract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R
  • ISBN: 9781784399672, 9781784399672
  • Date of issue: 2015-09-23
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3c5e
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing