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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Challenges to news data analysis


The analysis of news data was probably one of the most challenging tasks in this book. We will try to give the reader a summary of the toughest problems that we encountered in the process of developing this chapter:

  • Lack of API sources: News data providers are not always very API friendly. We were lucky to have a prestigious source such as The Guardian, which believes in open access to its data and goes to great lengths to ensure that. But, apart from a couple of big names such as The New York Times and The Guardian, we won't find a lot of data providers going down the API route.

  • Web scraping: Web scraping HTML data for text is quite a complex process. Once again, we were lucky that the HTML structure for our data sources was quite simple. A more involved structure would have meant a larger and more elaborate process of data scraping. (We encourage the reader to take a look at the HTML structure for any New York Times article to realize the complexity that...

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