Learning Social Media Analytics with R: Transform data from social media platforms into actionable business insights - Brossura

Bali, Raghav; Sarkar, Dipanjan; Sharma, Tushar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1787127524 ISBN 13: 9781787127524

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2017

Riassunto

Tap into the realm of social media and unleash the power of analytics for data-driven insights using R

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.

Book Description

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.

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

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull'autore

Raghav Bali is a Data Scientist at Optum (United Health Group). His work involves research & development of enterprise level solutions based on Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing for Healthcare & Insurance related use cases. In his previous role at Intel, he was involved in enabling proactive data driven IT initiatives. He has also worked in ERP and finance domains with some of the leading organizations in the world. Raghav has also authored multiple books with leading publishers. Raghav has a master's degree (gold medalist) in Information Technology from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Raghav loves reading and is a shutterbug capturing moments when he isn't busy solving problems.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Tap into the realm of social media and unleash the power of analytics for data-driven insights using R 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. Book Description 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. 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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1787127524
• ISBN 13: 9781787127524
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 394
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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