Chapter 11 Post-Google Social Graph API

[hack-r]

Google's social graph API no longer exists. I love this book and have used it as a template to start many other projects.

I need to make social graphs now and having skimmed this chapter I'm not sure if it's usable given the decommissioning of Google's API, as well as the changes to Twitter.

I'm currently trying to get started based on some other random social graph tut's online. I'm wondering if someone who is more familiar with this chapter can let me know if it is still worth reading completely and adapting the code to work around these changes or if that would be a waste of time?

Thanks!

[chaitrakamath]

Hey there,

I am not sure if you are still looking for a solution. I was following Ch11 and got bumped into the same situation as yours.

I implemented snowball sampling mechanism using twitteR package and I think it is much simpler than the code that needed to use Google's API. I am planning to finish the book sometime by end of this or next week and would upload my code for all the chapters then.

Meanwhile, I have attached my code file here for your reference. Also, I used the following guide as reference:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politicsdatalab/localdata/workshops/twitter.pdf

Hope this helps you.

Best,
Chai
01_google_sg.docx