Part I: Data mining. The programming languages you'll need to know -- Where to get your data -- Getting data with code -- Scraping your own Facebook data -- Scraping a live site -- Part II: Data analysis. Introduction to data analysis -- Visualizing your data -- Advanced tools for data analysis -- Finding trends in Reddit data -- Measuring the Twitter activity of political actors -- Where to go from here.
Summary:
"A guide to mining and analyzing data from social media websites. Combines both practical exercises and conceptual lessons on topics like writing a script to tap into an API and even how to analyze the data of an automated Twitter bot."-- provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.