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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

Chapter 2. Twitter – What's Happening with 140 Characters

An article in Forbes in 2012 outlined research undertaken by a Paris-based analytics firm. The research had found Jakarta to be the world's most active Twitter city (source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2012/12/30/the-worlds-most-active-twitter-city-you-wont-guess-it/#3b3f7d16343b). This may be a surprise, given the population count and other dynamics of the city, but such insights aren't jaw-dropping any more. The world is now a place where every other person has a virtual identity on numerous social networking platforms. The previous chapter gave you a quick glimpse into what a social network is (in case you didn't already know it) and this chapter will build on those concepts and set the tone for the rest of the book.

Twitter, as we all know, is a chirpy social network that's meant for sharing information at break-neck speeds. Technically, it is a microblogging platform which...

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