Numeric Data Resources: Social Media/Data Mining

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The following sites have social media data as well as "Big Data" available for download:

• Data Repository for NaN Group - NaN is a research group exploring complex systems, adaptive agents, modeling, simulation, artificial life, and complex (information, biological, and social) networks. We especially focus on the Web as a complex information network in which we leave abundant traces of our social and semantic activities.
• Where can I find large datasets open to the public? -  A FAQ page on Quora; not all links are for Social Media

The following are sites and books to help you learn how to mine social networks, mostly using R:

• Social Media Mining
• Twitter Data Analytics
• Text Mining with R -- an Analysis of Twitter Data
• RDatamining.com: R and Data Mining
• Using the R Twitter Package