If you have any questions to this tutorial or find some problems please feel free to create a topic in the forum: http://thinktostart.com/forums/forum/questions-tutorials/analyze-linkedin-with-r/ Some time ago I saw an interesting post in a R... The post Analyze LinkedIn with R appeared first on ThinkToStart. [Read more...]

This tutorial will show you how you create an Instagram app, create an authentication process with R and get data via the Instagram API. There is no R package for this yet so we... The post Analyze Instagram with R appeared first on ThinkToStart. [Read more...]

A lot of people showed a huge interest in analyzing Facebook data with R. So I decided to write some more tutorials about the possibilities you have with Rfacebook package created by Pablo Barbera.... The post Gender Analysis of Facebook Post Likes appeared first on ThinkToStart. [Read more...]

You can find the complete code on github: https://github.com/JulianHill/R-Tutorials/blob/master/spam_class_r.r   Introduction: The topic Machine Learning gets more and more important. The number of data sources grows everyday and it makes it hard to get... The post Build a SPAM filter with ... [Read more...]

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Hello everbody! Today  I want to show you how you can get deeper insights into your Twitter followers with the help of R. Because I just completed the course “Machine Learning” by Prof. Andrew Ng on Coursera I will use the k-means algorithm and cluster my Twitter followers by the ... [Read more...]

***ALPHA*** I just started to work on my new package for this blog. This R package will include the code of all my tutorials and will make it accessible with easy function calls. Install To install the ALPHA version of the package open up R and use: Usage In this ... [Read more...]

You can use this tutorial in the ThinkToStartR package with: ThinkToStart(“SentimentCloud”,”KEYWORD”,# of tweets,”DATUMBOX API KEY”) Hey everybody, some days ago I created a wordcloud filled with tweets of a recent german news topic. And a lot of people asked me if I have some code how I ... [Read more...]

Hey everybody, this tutorial is about combining two great and powerful tools: R and Google BigQuery. Big Query: So but what is BigQuery? I think Google describes it very well on the developers page: “Querying massive datasets can be time consuming and expensive without the right hardware and infrastructure. Google ... [Read more...]

Hey everybody, this is just a short post but I found it very useful. I want to show you how to add images as a background to your ggplot2 plots. To do so we need the packages png and grid Btw, this is just a cool and fast way to ... [Read more...]

Hey everybody, today I show you how you can start working with the Google+ API and R. We create a personal API key, get our own stats and plot them in a nice looking graph. Get the API Key You can get our API key on the Google Developer console ... [Read more...]

Hello everybody, in my first tutorial I described how you can build your own MongoDB and use a JAVA program to mine Twitter either via the search function and a loop or via the Streaming API. But till now you just have your tweets stores in a Database and we ... [Read more...]

Hello everybody! Today I found something very cool: There is a R package for mining Facebook. For Twitter there are different, but this is the first one really working well with Facebook. So I wanted to test it and was amazed about how easy it works. Setup: The first thing ... [Read more...]

UPDATE: The JAVA script is now also available with the streaming API. You can find the script on my github account Hey everybody, you sure know the problems which appear when you want to work with the Twitter API. Twitter created a lot of different restrictions minimizing the fun of ... [Read more...]

Hey there! After my post about sentiment analysis using the Viralheat API I found another service. Datumbox ist offering special sentiment analysis for Twitter. But this API doesn´t just offer sentiment analysis, it offers a much more detailed analysis. „The currently supported API functions are: Sentiment Analysis, Twitter Sentiment ... [Read more...]

Hi there! Some time ago I published a post about doing a sentiment analysis on Twitter. I used two wordlists to do so; one with positive and one with negative words. For the first try of a sentiment analysis it is surely a good way to start but if you ... [Read more...]