Mining Social Media

***BuzzFeed* News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language.**

Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit archives tell us about human behavior? In *Mining Social Media* , senior BuzzFeed reporter Lam Thuy Vo shows you how to use Python and key data analysis tools to find the stories buried in social media.

Whether you're a professional journalist, an academic researcher, or a citizen investigator, you'll learn how to use technical tools to collect and analyze data from social media sources to build compelling, data-driven stories.

Learn how to:

**-** Write Python scripts and use APIs to gather data from the social web

**-** Download data archives and dig through them for insights

**-** Inspect HTML downloaded from websites for useful content

**-** Format, aggregate, sort, and filter your collected data using Google Sheets

**-** Create data visualizations to illustrate your discoveries

**-** Perform advanced data analysis using Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and the pandas library

**-** Apply what you've learned to research topics on your own

Social media is filled with thousands of hidden stories just waiting to be told. Learn to use the data-sleuthing tools that professionals use to write your own data-driven stories.