What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to the Latest Social Media Landscape and Importance, covers the updated social media landscape and key figures. We also cover the technical environment around Python, algorithms, and social networks, which we later explain in detail.
Chapter 2, Harnessing Social Data - Connecting, Capturing, and Cleaning, introduces methods to connect to the most popular social networks. It involves the creation of developer applications on chosen social media and then using Python libraries to make connections to those applications and querying the data. We take you through the advantages and limitations of each social media platform, basic techniques to clean, structure, and normalize the data using text mining ...
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