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Mastering Social Media Mining with R

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784396312
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Mastering Social Media Mining with R
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Fundamentals of Mining 2. Mining Opinions, Exploring Trends, and More with Twitter 3. Find Friends on Facebook 4. Finding Popular Photos on Instagram 5. Let's Build Software with GitHub 6. More Social Media Websites Index

Popular personalities


From the dataset we built, we will work on identifying the most popular users using different aspects. Let's see those in detail.

Who has the most followers?

We can get the users with most number of followers from the dataset userprofiles by sorting the data using the column followed_by and using the function order. The following code will return the dataset by sorting the data in the descending order based on the column followed_by. The code is as follows:

mostfollowed<- userprofiles[with(userprofiles, order(-followed_by)), ]
head(mostfollowed$full_name, 15)

The output is as follows:

Who follows more people?

To know the user who follows the most number of people, we use the same dataset userprofiles. Everything is similar to the previous one, but we need to use the column follows instead of followed_by. The code is as follows:

mostfollows<- userprofiles[with(userprofiles, order(-follows)), ]
head(mostfollows$full_name, 15)

The output is as follows:

The preceding output...

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