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Mastering Social Media Mining with Python

By : Marco Bonzanini
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Mastering Social Media Mining with Python

By: Marco Bonzanini

Overview of this book

Your social media is filled with a wealth of hidden data – unlock it with the power of Python. Transform your understanding of your clients and customers when you use Python to solve the problems of understanding consumer behavior and turning raw data into actionable customer insights. This book will help you acquire and analyze data from leading social media sites. It will show you how to employ scientific Python tools to mine popular social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and more. Explore the Python libraries used for social media mining, and get the tips, tricks, and insider insight you need to make the most of them. Discover how to develop data mining tools that use a social media API, and how to create your own data analysis projects using Python for clear insight from your social data.

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Mastering Social Media Mining with Python
Marco Bonzanini
Jul, 2016 | 338 pages
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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Social Media, Social Data, and Python
1. Social Media, Social Data, and Python
Getting started
Social media - challenges and opportunities
Python tools for data science
Processing data in Python
Building complex data pipelines
Summary
2
2. #MiningTwitter – Hashtags, Topics, and Time Series
2. #MiningTwitter – Hashtags, Topics, and Time Series
Getting started
The Twitter API
Collecting data from Twitter
Analyzing tweets - entity analysis
Analyzing tweets - text analysis
Analyzing tweets - time series analysis
Summary
3
3. Users, Followers, and Communities on Twitter
3. Users, Followers, and Communities on Twitter
Users, friends, and followers
Mining your followers
Mining the conversation
Plotting tweets on a map
Summary
4
4. Posts, Pages, and User Interactions on Facebook
4. Posts, Pages, and User Interactions on Facebook
The Facebook Graph API
Mining your posts
Mining Facebook Pages
Summary
5
5. Topic Analysis on Google+
5. Topic Analysis on Google+
Getting started with the Google+ API
Embedding the search results in a web GUI
Notes and activities from a Google+ page
Text analysis and TF-IDF on notes
Summary
6
6. Questions and Answers on Stack Exchange
6. Questions and Answers on Stack Exchange
Questions and answers
Getting started with the Stack Exchange API
Working with Stack Exchange data dumps
Text classification for question tags
Summary
7
7. Blogs, RSS, Wikipedia, and Natural Language Processing
7. Blogs, RSS, Wikipedia, and Natural Language Processing
Blogs and NLP
Getting data from blogs and websites
NLP Basics
Summary
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8. Mining All the Data!
8. Mining All the Data!
Many social APIs
Mining videos on YouTube
Mining open source software on GitHub
Mining local businesses on Yelp
Building a custom Python client
Summary
9
9. Linked Data and the Semantic Web
9. Linked Data and the Semantic Web
A Web of Data
Mining relations from DBpedia
Mining geo coordinates
Summary

Mining videos on YouTube

YouTube (http://youtube.com) probably doesn't need much introduction nowadays, being one of the most visited websites in the world (ranked second in March 2016 in Alexa rank). The video-sharing service features a wide spectrum of content material is, in fact, produced and shared by a range of different authors, from amateur video bloggers to big corporations. YouTube's registered users can upload, rate, and comment on videos. Viewing and sharing doesn't require the users to register a profile.

YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006, so today they are part of the larger Google platform. In Chapter 5, Topic Analysis on Google+, and Chapter 7, Blogs, RSS, Wikipedia and Natural Language Processing, we have already introduced other services by Google, especially Google+ and Blogger. YouTube provides three different APIs to integrate your applications with the YouTube platform: YouTube Data, YouTube Analytics, and YouTube Reporting. We'll focus on the first one to retrieve...

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