Mining Social Media Av Lam Thuy Vo

<b><i>BuzzFeed</i> News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language.</b><br><br>Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit archives tell us about human behavior? In <i>Mining Social Media</i>, senior BuzzFeed reporter Lam Thuy Vo shows you how to use Python and key data analysis tools to find the stories buried in social media.<br><br>Whether you''re a professional journalist, an academic researcher, or a citizen investigator, you''ll learn how to use technical tools to collect and analyze data from social media sources to build compelling, data-driven stories.<br><br>Learn how to:<br><li>Write Python scripts and use APIs to gather data from the social web</li><li>Download data archives and dig through them for insights</li><li>Inspect HTML downloaded from websites for useful content</li><li>Format, aggregate, sort, and filter your c