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Nella sezione in inglese: a batch data processing to visualize social network maps. Come ottenere mappe tematiche sui social network sfruttando le risorse di Google.

Several times I have happened to read an interesting work or news and to have an idea on how to delve deeper into the matter, then to renounce because such a task would have required to collect and analyse a lot of online data and I haven’t had the time and the right tool to do it.

It was so also the first time I have seen the World map of social networks. The chart is nice but the information is a bit poor. Which is the penetration of Facebook or the other most popular social network in each country? Which is the variation occurred in each country between two successive dates? Which is the difference about the number of users between the most popular social network and the second one? Indeed, the situation where the users of the two most used social networks are in a ratio of about 1:1 is very different from the one where the ratio is about 1000:1. Anyway, among the two declared sources of data, Alexa offers freely only rank statistics, as far as I know, and Google Trends for Websites requires to make hundreds of queries to obtain the necessary data, and this was very discouraging. (continua…)