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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

Accessing Flickr's data


Now that we have a brief overview of Flickr, let's get started with our ritual of getting access to a platform's data. Pretty much as we have already seen across different social networks, Flickr exposes its data through a set of APIs for which we would need to create an app. For the use cases to be discussed further in this chapter, we will be relying on the latest API endpoints exposed by Flickr through direct calls, instead of R packages to do so. Flickr datasets, similar to StackExchange data dumps, though not official in certain cases, are also available on the Internet but are beyond the scope of this chapter.

Flickr exposes its data through APIs which accept and respond in formats such as JSON, XML, SOAP, and so on. It also supports developer API kits in various programming languages such as C, Java, Python, and so on, but unfortunately not in R. Though R has certain packages to connect and work with Flickr APIs, most of them are not updated with the latest...

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