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Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition Data pre-processing, analysis and visualization using R and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129627
Length 434 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anthony Ojeda Anthony Ojeda
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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Sean P Murphy Sean P Murphy
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Bhushan Purushottam Joshi Bhushan Purushottam Joshi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing Your Data Science Environment 2. Driving Visual Analysis with Automobile Data with R FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Application-Oriented Analyses Using Tax Data and Python 4. Modeling Stock Market Data 5. Visually Exploring Employment Data 6. Driving Visual Analyses with Automobile Data 7. Working with Social Graphs 8. Recommending Movies at Scale (Python) 9. Harvesting and Geolocating Twitter Data (Python) 10. Forecasting New Zealand Overseas Visitors 11. German Credit Data Analysis

Determining your Twitter followers and friends


In the Twitter social network, users are labeled either as followers or friends relative to a particular user. Your friends are the people that you follow and your followers are the people that follow you. In this recipe, we determine who your friends are, who your followers are, and how much overlap there is in each group.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the results of the previous two recipes and the twitter_oauth_login() function. Also, we will be working in IPython or the default Python REPL, if you prefer that instead. Feel free to use an editor in order to start capturing and modifying the code as it grows in complexity.

How to do it...

The following steps will allow you to determine all of your Twitter friends and followers:

  1. In IPython or your favorite REPL, enter the following:
In [8]: twitter = twitter_oauth_login() 
   ...: friends_ids = twitter.get_friends_ids(count=5000) 
   ...: friends_ids = friends_ids['ids'] 
 
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