Mining the Social Web

Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites



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Price$12.99 - $35.00
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AuthorMatthew A. Russell
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2011
Pages360
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101449388345
ISBN-139781449388348
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they're talking about, or where they're located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you find what you've been looking for in the social haystack, as well as useful information you didn't know existed.

Each standalone chapter introduces techniques for mining data in different areas of the social Web, including blogs and email. All you need to get started is a programming background and a willingness to learn basic Python tools.


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