Sessions at OSCON 2011 on Tuesday 26th July in E143/144

This lab teaches you how to harvest, store, analyze, and visualize data from the most popular social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) with Python, pragmatic storage technologies like Redis and CouchDB, and popular visualization tools like Graphviz and JavaScript toolkits.

StatusNet (http://status.net/) best known as the Open Source microblogging platform, has a powerful plugin system for building new social networking applications. In this tutorial, the core developers of StatusNet show how to build server-side plugins, API clients, and custom themes to make your own social network tools.