This book is about applying data mining techniques to social media using Python. The three highlighted keywords in the previous sentence help us define the intended audience of this book: any developer, engineer, analyst, researcher, or student who is interested in exploring the area where the three topics meet.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Social media and social data
- The overall process of data mining from social media
- Setting up the Python development environment
- Python tools for data science
- Processing data in Python