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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 5. Analyzing Software Collaboration Trends I – Social Coding with GitHub

Technology has evolved with leaps and bounds over the last couple of decades. With better hardware, software, and data, we are finally seeing trends such as open source, big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and productivity tools. The rise of open source development has created a healthy collaborative culture in the software development landscape where pair programming, open source contributions, and problem redressal have helped developers build better software together. In the next couple of chapters, we will try to analyze trends in the software development and collaboration domain by focusing on two major platforms – GitHub and StackExchange.

To know about GitHub, we need to know about Git! If you are a software developer, tester, or have worked collaboratively with others in building software, you might be familiar with Git. In the year 2005, famous software engineer...

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