Social Media Data Mining and Analysis

Resources

Intro to Python Lectures

• Intro to Python - Part 1
• Intro to Python - Part 2
• Intro to Python - Part 3

Intro to Python Samples

• simple loop example
• simple procedures
• simple examples of control flow
• example file I/O
• base Person class
• Student subclass (of Person)

Other Lectures

• Intro to Twitter data collection
• Microformats
• Processing Mailboxes
• Intro to Wikipedia, wikipedia data dumps

Twitter Hacking Samples

• Collecting, pickling tweets
• Simple graph construction, saving
• Collecting trend data
• Collecting friend & follower data
• Graphing friend & follower data
• Collecting tweet entity data
• Simple tweet entity frequency analysis