Matthew Russell on Mining the Social Web [electronic resource] / Russell, Matthew
- Author:
- Russell, Matthew
- Published:
- O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2011.
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 3 hr., 13 min.)
- Additional Creators:
- Safari Books Online (Firm)
- Access Online:
- go.oreilly.com
- Summary:
- Twitter has become a lean, mean data-collecting machine, and with this entertaining video course, you'll learn techniques for mining this vast wealth of information. Follow along as author and data analyst Matthew Russell shows O'Reilly's Director of Market Research how easy it is to uncover valuable Twitter data with basic Python tools and pragmatic storage technologies such as Redis and CouchDB. Matthew analyzes the Twitter stream of top-tweeter Tim O'Reilly, looks in-depth into a friendship network, and considers Freakonomic questions such as "What does Justin Bieber have in common with the Tea Party?" Based on portions of Matthew's book, Mining the Social Web (O'Reilly, 2011), this fast-moving presentation is ideal for beginning to intermediate programmers, as well as data analysts, who want to find extraordinary nuggets of information in the Twitter data haystack.
- ISBN:
- 0636920018292
- Digital File Characteristics:
- video file
- Reproduction Note:
- Electronic reproduction. Boston, MA : Safari, Available via World Wide Web.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Copyright Note:
- Copyright © O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Issuing Body:
- Made available through: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company.
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