Mining the Social Web

Mining the Social Web
Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites
By Matthew A. Russell

Popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter generate a tremendous amount of valuable data on topics and use patterns. Who’s talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more by harvesting and analyzing data using social web APIs, Python tools, GitHub, HTML5, and JavaScript.

Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: January 2011
Pages: 360