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Learning Social Media Analytics with R

You're reading from   Learning Social Media Analytics with R Transform data from social media platforms into actionable business insights

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127524
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raghav Bali Raghav Bali
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Dipanjan Sarkar Dipanjan Sarkar
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Karthik Ganapathy Karthik Ganapathy
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Tushar Sharma Tushar Sharma
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Preface 1. Getting Started with R and Social Media Analytics 2. Twitter – What's Happening with 140 Characters FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Social Networks and Brand Engagements with Facebook 4. Foursquare – Are You Checked in Yet? 5. Analyzing Software Collaboration Trends I – Social Coding with GitHub 6. Analyzing Software Collaboration Trends II - Answering Your Questions with StackExchange 7. Believe What You See – Flickr Data Analysis 8. News – The Collective Social Media! Index

Chapter 8. News – The Collective Social Media!

News is ubiquitous in nature, be it a breaking news flash, an opinion piece about the latest issues, or just a gossip-monger column on page 3 of your favorite daily. In the new age world of media such as Twitter, Facebook, and so on there is an indistinguishable line between what constitutes news and what constitutes social media content. We share the notion that the unique position news shares in today's electronic world makes it eligible to be termed social media. News can be described as a collective social media outlet, although each individual does not produce the news articles directly, but they collectively represent the beliefs, hopes, and dreams of the society.

In this chapter, we will try to go through the various steps that are involved in analyzing news from different sources. We will deal with the process of using news data and build use cases that will serve as an introduction for the complex analyzes that...

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