Mining the social web / Matthew A. Russell

Author:: Russell, Matthew A. (Computer scientist)
Additional Titles:: Mining the social web : analyzing data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites
Published:: Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2011.
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xx, 332 pages) : illustrations

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Contents:

Introduction : hacking on Twitter data -- Microformats : semantic markup and common sense collide -- Mailboxes : oldies but goodies -- Twitter : friends, followers, and setwise operations -- Twitter : the tweet, the whole tweet, and nothing but the tweet -- LinkedIn : clustering your professional network for fun (and profit?) -- Google buzz : TF-IDF, cosine similarity, and collocations -- Blogs et al. : natural language processing (and beyond) -- Facebook : the all-in-one wonder -- The semantic web : a cocktail discussion.

Summary:

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they're talking about, or where they're located? This book shows you how to answer these questions and more. Each chapter introduces techniques for mining data in different areas of the social web, including blogs and email.

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9781449394752
1449394752
9781449388348 (pbk.)
1449388345 (pbk.)
9781449303938
1449303935
9781449304164
1449304168

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Includes index.

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