Dive into the world of social media and learn the art and science behind leveraging the power of R and analytics to transform data into actionable insights. This book will provide you with detailed strategies, workflows and hands-on approaches to tap into data from diverse social media platforms and showcase the power of leveraging analytics to get insightful information. This repository contains datasets and code used in this book. We will also be adding various notebooks and bonus content here from time to time. Keep watching this space!
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The book will also cover several practical real-world use cases on social media using R and its advanced packages to utilize data science methodologies such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, text summarization, recommendation systems, social network analysis, classification, and clustering. This will enable readers to learn different hands-on approaches to obtain data from diverse social media sources such as Twitter and Facebook. It will also show readers how to establish detailed workflows to process, visualize, and analyze data to transform social data into actionable insights.
Book Title: Learning Social Media Analytics with R Publisher: Packt
Copyright: Sarkar, Bali & Sharma ISBN 13: 9781787127524
Key Features:
- A practical guide written to help leverage the power of the R eco-system to extract, process, analyze, visualize and model social media data
- Learn about data access, retrieval, cleaning, and curation methods for data originating from various social media platforms.
- Visualize and analyze data from social media platforms to understand and model complex relationships using various concepts and techniques such as Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Text Summarization, Recommendation Systems, Social Network Analysis, Classification, and Clustering.
What You Will Learn:
- Learn how to tap into data from diverse social media platforms using the R ecosystem
- Use social media data to formulate and solve real-world problems
- Analyze user social networks and communities using concepts from graph theory and network analysis
- Learn to detect opinion and sentiment, extract themes, topics, and trends from unstructured noisy text data from diverse social media channels
- Understand the art of representing actionable insights with effective visualizations
- Analyze data from major social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Github, StackExchange, and so on
- Learn to leverage popular R packages such as
ggplot2
,topicmodels
,caret
,e1071
,tm
,wordcloud
,twittR
,Rfacebook
,dplyr
,reshape2
, and many more