Since the beginning of the 2010 World Cup, I’ve been saving tweets from the twitter gardenhose and trying to find interesting things in the data. Here is a histogram showing the count of mentions for each country’s hashtag. With apologies for my lack of effort in ggplot2: Even though my raw data was sorted by [...]
Using twitter gardenhose access, remove stopwords and punctuation sprinkle in a little bit of mapping, some reducing, and voila! The most frequently-occurring words in tweets that mentioned earthquake from June 23, 2010. I left earthquake out of the image itself because being that it was in every tweet, it overwhelmed the rest of the words. [...]
Edit: I’m not sure why wordpress decided to resize some of my pictures, please let me know how to avoid this. It’s not like Twitter is going to go all Ma.gnolia on us and lose all of our data but here’s a way to back up and search through your prior tweets. I’ve been using [...]
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