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Twitter Data Mining Round Up
Posted on February 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
Since the release of Mining the Social Web, 2E in late October of last year, I have mostly focused on creating supplemental content that focused on Twitter data. This seemed like a natural starting point given that the first chapter of the book is a gentle introduction to data mining with Twitter’s API coupled with […]
Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format
Posted on October 25, 2013 3 Comments
The 2nd Edition of Mining the Social Web has officially soft-launched (the “hard-launch is at my Strata workshop next week), and as of late last week you could download either a PDF file or view an ebook excerpt of the first chapter that introduces data mining with Twitter’s API. Additionally, as of just a few hours ago, the full-text of the first […]
Why Is Twitter All the Rage?
Posted on October 9, 2013 4 Comments
Next week, I’ll be presenting a short webcast entitled Why Twitter Is All the Rage: A Data Miner’s Perspective that is loosely adapted from material that appears early in Mining the Social Web (2nd Ed). Given that the webcast is now less than a week away, I wanted to share out the content that inspired the topic. This […]
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