Learning Social Media Analytics with R
by Dipanjan Sarkar, Karthik Ganapathy, Raghav Bali, Tushar Sharma
Summary
This chapter presented an opportunity to learn about a social network which has so far passed the test of time. Flickr has evolved with the Internet and has been, for a long time now, a popular site for professional and amateur photographers alike. Since its very inception, Flickr has been part of numerous research studies and their APIs have provided analysts/researchers access to their data. With about 10 billion photos, Flickr is a goldmine of sorts. In this chapter, we covered ways of interacting with Flickr using its APIs, and prepared some useful utilities to extract and preprocess the deeply nested response objects. We learnt a few basics related to photography, in particular EXIF, and used this domain knowledge to cluster our set ...
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