Learning Social Media Analytics with R
by Dipanjan Sarkar, Karthik Ganapathy, Raghav Bali, Tushar Sharma
Summary
A tweet is far more than just 140 characters, and Twitter offers quite a lot to play with for a social network. We covered a lot of ground in this chapter by looking at many concepts and solving use cases based on real Twitter data. We learned about different Twitter objects and its APIs. We created an app of our own and utilized R's twitteR package to connect and tap into its APIs. We performed trend analysis to understand how a hashtag is used by tweeple and its temporal affects. We also solved a use case involving sentiment analysis. Through this use case, we first understood the key concepts related to sentiment analysis and then employed them to understand what emotions @POTUS conveys through his tweets. We also performed hierarchical ...
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