Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2015)/Day 2 projects/Twitter
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'''Who are my followers?''' | '''Who are my followers?''' | ||
# | # Use sample 2 to get your followers. | ||
# For each of your followers, get *their* followers (investigate time.sleep to throttle your computation) | # For each of your followers, get *their* followers (investigate time.sleep to throttle your computation) | ||
# Identify the follower you have that also follows the most of your followers. | # Identify the follower you have that also follows the most of your followers. | ||
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'''Topics and Trends''' | '''Topics and Trends''' | ||
# | # Use sample 3 to produce a list of 1000 tweets about a topic. | ||
# Look at those tweets. How does twitter interpret a two word query like "data science" | # Look at those tweets. How does twitter interpret a two word query like "data science" | ||
# Eliminate retweets [hint: look at the tweet object! https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets] | # Eliminate retweets [hint: look at the tweet object! https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets] |