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Mastering Social Media Mining with R

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396312
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Fundamentals of Mining 2. Mining Opinions, Exploring Trends, and More with Twitter FREE CHAPTER 3. Find Friends on Facebook 4. Finding Popular Photos on Instagram 5. Let's Build Software with GitHub 6. More Social Media Websites Index

Chapter 2. Mining Opinions, Exploring Trends, and More with Twitter

Our approach in this book is to use statistics and social science theory to mine social media, and we'll use R as our base programming language.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Twitter and its importance
  • Getting hands-on with Twitter's data and using various Twitter APIs
  • Use of data to solve business problems—comparison of various businesses based on tweets
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Mastering Social Media Mining with R
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