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Mining the Social Web Matthew A. Russell

Mining the Social Web By Matthew A. Russell

Mining the Social Web by Matthew A. Russell


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Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media.

Mining the Social Web Summary

Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More by Matthew A. Russell

Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media-including who's connecting with whom, what they're talking about, and where they're located-using Python code examples, Jupyter notebooks, or Docker containers. In part one, each standalone chapter focuses on one aspect of the social landscape, including each of the major social sites, as well as web pages, blogs and feeds, mailboxes, GitHub, and a newly added chapter covering Instagram. Part two provides a cookbook with two dozen bite-size recipes for solving particular issues with Twitter. Get a straightforward synopsis of the social web landscape Use Docker to easily run each chapter's example code, packaged as a Jupyter notebook Adapt and contribute to the code's open source GitHub repository Learn how to employ best-in-class Python 3 tools to slice and dice the data you collect Apply advanced mining techniques such as TFIDF, cosine similarity, collocation analysis, clique detection, and image recognition Build beautiful data visualizations with Python and JavaScript toolkits

About Matthew A. Russell

Matthew Russell, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Reasoning, Principal at Zaffra, and author of several books on technology including Mining the Social Web (O'Reilly, 2013), now in its second edition. He is passionate about open source software development, data mining, and creating technology to amplify human intelligence. Matthew studied computer science and jumped out of airplanes at the United States Air Force Academy. When not solving hard problems, he enjoys practicing Bikram Hot Yoga, CrossFitting and participating in triathlons. Mikhail Klassen is co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Paladin:Paradigm, an aerospace analytics startup based in Montreal.His PhD research work was in large-scale numerical simulations of star formation, where he implemented a novel radiative transfer technique that led to more accurate models of the birth environments of high-mass stars.

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NGR9781491985045
9781491985045
1491985046
Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More by Matthew A. Russell
New
Paperback
O'Reilly Media
2019-01-31
432
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