Mining the Social Web. Get Into the Social Media World to Find Who Makes Connections with Whom

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn create extensive amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they’re talking about, or where they’re located?

This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you find what you've been looking for in the social haystack, as well as useful information you didn't know existed. If you have a basic programming background and are interested in insight surrounding the opportunities that arise from mining and analyzing data from the social web, you’ve come to the right place. The book was written so that you could have the option of either reading it from cover to cover to get a broad primer on working with social web data, or pick and choose chapters that are of particular interest to you.

Source: Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, and More