Tag Archive For "Social Graph"
Extracting Facebook Data With SSIS
This is the 3rd post in this quasi-series on Facebook data from a business intelligence perspective. First, we discussed the value of customer analysis and how integrating Facebook data can enrich such analysis. Next we established a basic understanding of the Facebook social graph from which we wish to extract customer data. Value of Integrating …
Facebook as a Data Source
Earlier this month year, I discussed the value of integrating Facebook data for customer analysis. Originally, I planned to follow up with a post covering the process of extracting data from Facebook using SSIS… but as I started working through the material, I quickly realized the background information on ‘Facebook as a data source’ was worthy of its …
Value of Integrating Facebook Data For Customer Analysis
Unless you recently awoke from a coma, you probably noticed that Facebook filed for IPO earlier this year. The stock opened at $38/share valuing the company at ~$104 billion. Since then, the stock has gotten absolutely crushed as critics everywhere have come crawling out of the wood work with claims about Facebook’s mobile strategy (or …