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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

Analyzing your personal social network

As we had mentioned before, Facebook is a massive social graph, connecting billions of users, brands and organizations. Consider your own Facebook account if you have one. You will have several friends who are your immediate connections, they in turn will have their own set of friends, and you might be friends with some of them and so on. You and your friends form the nodes of the network and edges determine the connections. In this section, we will analyze a small network of you and your immediate friends and also look at how we can extract and analyze some properties from the network. Before we jump into our analysis, we'll start by loading the necessary packages needed, which are mentioned in the following snippet, and store the Facebook Graph API access token in a variable:

library(Rfacebook)
library(gridExtra)
library(dplyr)
# get the Graph API access token
token =  'XXXXXXXXXXX'

You can refer to the file fb_personal_network_analysis...

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