TwitterAnalysis

David Norrish Nov-Dec 2017

Scripts for calling the Twitter API to retrieve relevant tweets, then carry out network, sentiment and NLP analysis.

1. Retrieve some tweet data using twitter_search.py
2. Network analysis with network_analysis.py

Uses the Python Twitter Tools package and Twitter API: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter

Getting Tweet data

twitter_search.py takes a search query, optional additional arguments, and retrieves relevant tweets using the Twitter Search API. Note the API rate limits and search functionality query protocols.

Optional arguments include:

• count: # of tweets to retrieve (default = 15, max 100 per API call, but multiple calls will automatically be strung together if needed)
• lang (str): A valid ISO 639-1 code, e.g. 'en'
• result_type: whether to retrieve recent or popular tweets, or a mix (default)
• exact: only retrieve exact phrase matches

More information about Twitter search parameters available here

Network analysis

Sentiment analysis