Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, and More

Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, and More, 9781449367619 (1449367615), O'Reilly, 2013

How can you tap into the wealth of social web data to discover who’s making connections with whom, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located? With this expanded and thoroughly revised edition, you’ll learn how to acquire, analyze, and summarize data from all corners of the social web, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, email, websites, and blogs.

Employ the Natural Language Toolkit, NetworkX, and other scientific computing tools to mine popular social web sites
Apply advanced text-mining techniques, such as clustering and TF-IDF, to extract meaning from human language data
Bootstrap interest graphs from GitHub by discovering affinities among people, programming languages, and coding projects
Build interactive visualizations with D3.js, an extraordinarily flexible HTML5 and JavaScript toolkit
Take advantage of more than two-dozen Twitter recipes, presented in O’Reilly’s popular "problem/solution/discussion" cookbook format

The example code for this unique data science book is maintained in a public GitHub repository. It’s designed to be easily accessible through a turnkey virtual machine that facilitates interactive learning with an easy-to-use collection of IPython Notebooks.

Comments

Amazing Books

PEM Fuel Cell Durability Handbook, Two-Volume Set: PEM Fuel Cell Failure Mode Analysis

CRC Press, 2011

PEM Fuel Cell Failure Mode Analysis presents a systematic analysis of PEM fuel cell durability and failure modes. It provides readers with a fundamental understanding of insufficient fuel cell durability, identification of failure modes and failure mechanisms of PEM fuel cells, fuel cell component degradation testing, and...

Apoptosis And Its Relevance to Autoimmunity (Current Directions in Autoimmunity)

Karger, 2005

Over the last 15 years, apoptosis has become a dominant focus of medical research in the field of immunology. This publication discusses the three major areas of apoptosis research: extrinsic death receptor pathways, intrinsic cell death pathways and the mechanisms responsible for apoptotic cell clearance. Each section delineates the proteins...

The Handbook of Global Companies (HGP - Handbooks of Global Policy)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance.

Offers new insights into the role of global companies in relation to policy and governance at local,...

Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War

Greenwood Press, 2006

Provides clear, concise, and basic descriptions and definitions to over 260 key people, events, and terms relating to the series of conflicts between France and England in the 14th and 15th centuries that later came to be known as the Hundred Years War.

The Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War provides its users with clear,...

The Benchmarking Book: A how-to guide to best practice for managers and practitioners

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009

With growing demands for increased operational efficiency and process improvement in organizations of all sizes, more and more companies are turning to benchmarking as a means of setting goals and measuring performance against the products, services and practices of other organizations that are recognized as leaders.

The Benchmarking...

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (Wrox Professional Guides)

Wrox Press, 2006

ASP.Net security covers a broad range of subjects. Concepts such as Web security features, developing in partial trust, forms authentication, and securing configuration - just to name a few p are all integral components to helping developers ensure reliable security. Addressing the ASP.NET security features from the developer's point of view, this...