Is there anyone who works on SNA? Do you have any recommended tools for SNA?
I'll start some research related to SNA, especially for twitter and facebook, but its hard for me to develop some tools to gain data from twitter and facebook, basically I just want to get the "text based data" from both. And I'll use text mining to analyze all that I need.
Could you please give me an advice, what kind of tools that I can use to get data from twitter and facebook?
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What are the best Social Network Analysis Tools?
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I suggest this book is a good reference for you "Russell, (2011) Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites". -
really appreciated it Nung! Thanks! -
It would be very hard to come up with one tool because of the complexity/facts of analysis: eg spaio-temporal-thematic, people-content-network, emotion-sentiment-intent/subjectivity,.... leading to higher level properties like diffusion, spread, influence, ... leading to business/technical objectives .... Read this to get some initial exposure:
http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Twitris
Just for the network alone, you have tools like: http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ -
You might also want to check out Pajek:
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
I don't think it scales all that well, but it might be useful for analyzing subgraphs of the network -
I suggest NetMiner :) -
R has many packages that makes this easy. Twitter is one package that you want to get started with.
If you are planning to build any serious models or analytics, then you should look into the text-mining and social-network packages from R. The tm and sna packages are what you need.
Most importantly you want to finalize your "problem" first (what exactly you want to do with the social data). There are multiple types of problems that people want to solve with social data: Sentiment analysis, Influence analysis, Intent analysis, competitor analysis and so on....
You can take a look at my poc video for a take on sentiment analysis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCG-i4OzTc
- Gopalakrishna Palem
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Also, you might find the RapidMiner Text analytics video tutorials helpful (whether you use RapidMiner or Not).
Do not forget to checkout: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.in/2010/11/text-analytics-with-rapidminer-loading.html
- Gopalakrishna Palem
http://gopalakrishna.palem.in
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