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Mining Social Media

Lam Thuy Vo

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No Starch Press,US
25 November 2019
BuzzFeed News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language.

BuzzFeed News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language.

Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit archives tell us about human behavior? In Mining Social Media, senior BuzzFeed reporter Lam Thuy Vo shows you how to use Python and key data analysis tools to find the stories buried in social media.

Whether you're a professional journalist, an academic researcher, or a citizen investigator, you'll learn how to use technical tools to collect and analyze data from social media sources to build compelling, data-driven stories.

Learn how to- Write Python scripts and use APIs to gather data from the social web Download data archives and dig through them for insights Inspect HTML downloaded from websites for useful content Format, aggregate, sort, and filter your collected data using Google Sheets Create data visualizations to illustrate your discoveries Perform advanced data analysis using Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and the pandas library Apply what you've learned to research topics on your own

Social media is filled with thousands of hidden stories just waiting to be told. Learn to use the data-sleuthing tools that professionals use to write your own data-driven stories.
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Imprint:   No Starch Press,US
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 177mm, 
Weight:   368g
ISBN:   9781593279165
ISBN 10:   1593279167
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Part I: Data Mining Chapter 1: The Programming Languages You’ll Need to Know Chapter 2: Where to Get Your Data Chapter 3: Getting Data with Code Chapter 4: Scraping Your Own Facebook Data Chapter 5: Scraping a Live Site Part II: Data Analysis Chapter 6: Introduction to Data Analysis Chapter 7: Visualizing Your Data Chapter 8: Advanced Tools for Data Analysis Chapter 9: Finding Trends in Reddit Data Chapter 10: Measuring the Twitter Activity of Political Actors Chapter 11: Where to Go from Here

Lam Thuy Vo is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News where she focuses on the intersection of technology, society, and social media data. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, and NPR's Planet Money, telling economic stories across the US and throughout Asia. Vo has also spent over a decade as an educator, training newsrooms and developing courses for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Reviews for Mining Social Media

If you want to know a little bit about Data Science while learning Python along the way, Mining Social Media is a must read . . . It's a fun and hands on approach to the topic, and I'd love to have read this when I was starting coding! -Goncalo Palma, @GonPalma Excellently written, with complex topics made easy to understand, and has a welcoming style of prose. -Ryan K. Louie, MD, PhD, @ryanlouie


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