dipanjans/learning-social-media-analytics-with-r

This repository contains code and bonus content which will be added from time to time for the book "Learning Social Media Analytics with R" by Packt

Learning Social Media Analytics with R

Transform data from Social Media Platforms into Actionable Insights

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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About the book

The Internet has truly become humongous, especially with the rise of various forms of social media in the last decade, which give users a platform to express themselves and also communicate and collaborate with each other. This book will help the reader to understand the current social media landscape and to learn how analytics can be leveraged to derive insights from it. This data can be analyzed to gain valuable insights into the behavior and engagement of users, organizations, businesses, and brands. It will help readers frame business problems and solve them using social data.

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.

^{Edition: 1st   Pages: 394   Language: English
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

learning-social-media-analytics-with-r's Issues

Running "setup_twitter_oauth" creating 2-3 issues. How do I solve it?

When I run this:
> setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key = CONSUMER_KEY, consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET)

Output 1 -

[1] "Using browser based authentication"
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  Timeout was reached

Questions for the chapter8

Hi, I have a question about the line below.
I suppose that there seems to be no grouped category around the line.

learning-social-media-analytics-with-r/Chapter 8 - Analyzing News Platforms/Code/B06056_08_02_code.R

Line 161 in aef8c32

sentiments_summary_df <-articles_sentiment_df %>%

Chapter 2 - Analyzing Twitter - twitteR package deprecated. should i switch to rtweet?

Geoff who maintains TwitteR package mentioned -

"This is the start of a relatively leisurely deprecation period for twitteR, in favor of using rtweet. Please start looking to switch over to that package. If you have any questions contact myself or @mkearney"

Should I be concerned?

https://github.com/geoffjentry/twitteR

Python Code

Can you kindly share the python code ....?

Questions for the chapter4 Istanbul data

Hi,
I am studying chapter4 and have two questions.

1. The meaning of levels_to traverse

It looks like the same operation is repeated for the number of levels_to_traverse in the code.
There seems to be no explanation about the traverse.
Would you tell me why we need to specify levels_to_traverse ?

2. Mistakes in the code?

• The line below are needed? It seems that sum_points are not used in other parts.

https://github.com/dipanjanS/learning-social-media-analytics-with-r/blob/master/Chapter%204%20-%20Analyzing%20Foursquare/Code/B06056_04_02_code.R#L126

• At this line, we should specify file_level1 instead of file_level2?

https://github.com/dipanjanS/learning-social-media-analytics-with-r/blob/master/Chapter%204%20-%20Analyzing%20Foursquare/Code/B06056_04_02_code.R#L129

Thanks.

Chpt. 2 mapCountry

Hi!
Thank you so much for loading your code and sharing the work that you put into creating this book.
I was working through the code and I was having some problems with mapCountry function. It might be a simple fix that I'm overlooking, but I would appreciate it if you could check out the screenshot and let me know what you think. Thank you!

Question regarding Flickr code

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about lines 39-45 in your Flickr code; specifically I can't see how the token credentials in line 43 are being used by the GET/sprintf functions. Sorry, I'm still trying to figure things out.