Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. A guided tour of the social web. Mining Twitter : exploring trending topics, discovering what people are talking about, and more ; Mining Facebook : analyzing fan pages, examining friendships, and more ; Mining Instagram : computer vision, neural networks, object recognition, and face detection ; Mining LinkedIn : faceting job titles, clustering colleagues, and more ; Mining text files : computing document similarity, extracting collocations, and more ; Mining web pages : using natural language processing to understand human language, summarize blog posts, and more ; Mining mailboxes : analyzing who's talking to whom about what, how often, and more ; Mining GitHub : inspecting software collaboration habits, building interest graphs, and more -- Part II. Twitter cookbook -- Part III. Appendixes. A. Information about this book's virtual machine experience ; B. OAuth primer ; C. Python and Jupyter notebook tips and tricks