Chapter 3. Find Friends on Facebook
There is no need for an introduction about Facebook. It's a huge source of information, we are connected to a lot of people, and we keep following the things that happen in our network. We get to know not only about the people in our network but also about places, movies, companies, and so on. With over 1.44 billion active users monthly, Facebook is also used as a medium to make promotions. It is being used by individuals, companies, news channels, and so on. Let's see what we can do using the Facebook Graph API.
In this chapter, we will see how to use the R package Rfacebook, which provides access to the Facebook Graph API from R. It includes a series of functions that allow us to extract various data about our network such as friends, likes, comments, followers, newsfeeds, and much more.
The idea behind the chapter is to learn how to pull the data from our network and use suitable techniques to convert that data into valuable information...
