Tuesday, June 6, 2017

6 Interesting Things You Can Do with Python on Facebook Data




Update*



I won KDnuggets Gold Blog award for June for this post.

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Facebook has a huge amount of data that is available for you to explore, you can do many things with this data. I will be sharing my experience with you on how you can use the Facebook Graph API for analysis with Python.




In this article, I will be sharing my experience with you on how you can use the Facebook Graph API for analysis with Python and pandas.
Facebook has a huge amount of data that is available for you to explore, you can do many things with this data like: Analyse Facebook pages or Facebook groups, use this data for Social Network Analysis (SNA), doing data analysis for digital marketing, or even gathering and saving data for your own personal projects. There are so many ways you can use this data; it's up to you.
In this videos I will show you examples of how you can do the basic stuff such as:  
  • Downloading data from Facebook
  • Converting from json to a more convenient data structure so we are able to work with it
  • Dealing with the date variable and other data in the Graph API



    Read the full post and check the video series here