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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

Foursquare – the app and data

Foursquare was founded in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai. It was a reimagined version of a similar service, Dodgeball, founded by Crowley in his graduate studies days. Dodgeball was an attempt to help the user interact with his neighborhood using his phone and primarily using SMS messages:

Foursquare – the app and data

Foursquare main page. Image source: By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43651932

Foursquare continued that paradigm and tried to use the new features of smartphones for achieving the same interaction, the most important of these features being the GPS.

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The initial rise to fame of Foursquare was related to its innovative check-in feature, which allowed a user to share his/her location at any venue. This feature was quite similar to Facebook's own check-in feature. Although with the launch of Foursquare 8.0, the check-in feature has been removed from the Foursquare application.

A unique feature of Foursquare...

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