Editing Twitter (CDSW)
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Open the notebook "ex0_print_a_tweet.py" in jupyter. Execute all of the cells. You should see the text of 100 tweets in the second to last cell. If you see an error, you probably have a problem with the API information you entered in the previous step. A volunteer can help you. | Open the notebook "ex0_print_a_tweet.py" in jupyter. Execute all of the cells. You should see the text of 100 tweets in the second to last cell. If you see an error, you probably have a problem with the API information you entered in the previous step. A volunteer can help you. | ||
== Potential exercises == | |||
'''Who are my followers?''' | |||
# Alter code example 2 (twitter2.py) to get your followers. | |||
# 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. | |||
# How many handles follow you but none of your followers? | |||
# Repeat this for people you follow, rather than that follow you. | |||
'''Topics and Trends''' | '''Topics and Trends''' | ||
# Alter code example | # Alter code example 3 (twitter3.py) to produce a list of 1000 tweets about a topic. | ||
# 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] | ||
# For each tweet original tweet, list the number of times you see it retweeted. | # For each tweet original tweet, list the number of times you see it retweeted. | ||
# Get a list of the URLs that are | # Get a list of the URLs that are associated with your topic. | ||
'''Geolocation from Search API''' | '''Geolocation from Search API''' | ||
# Get the last 50 tweets from Ballard. | # Get the last 50 tweets from Ballard. | ||
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# A baseball game happened today (May 11) between the Seattle Mariners and the Tampa Bay Rays. Using two geo searches, see if you can tell which city hosted the game. Note: if you do this some other day, you should pick a new sporting event. | # A baseball game happened today (May 11) between the Seattle Mariners and the Tampa Bay Rays. Using two geo searches, see if you can tell which city hosted the game. Note: if you do this some other day, you should pick a new sporting event. | ||
'''Geolocation | '''Geolocation''' | ||
# Alter the streaming algorithm to include a "locations" filter. You need to use the order sw_lng, sw_lat, ne_lng, ne_lat for the four coordinates. (Recall | # Alter the streaming algorithm to include a "locations" filter. You need to use the order sw_lng, sw_lat, ne_lng, ne_lat for the four coordinates. (Recall Control C will stop an active process like the stream.) | ||
# What are people tweeting about in Times Square today? (Bonus points: set up a bounding box around TS and around NYC as a whole.) | # What are people tweeting about in Times Square today? (Bonus points: set up a bounding box around TS and around NYC as a whole.) | ||
# Can you find words that are more likely to appear in | # Can you find words that are more likely to appear in TS? | ||
# | # Boston is playing Houston in baseball right now. Set up a bounding box around the Houston and Boston. Can you identify tweets about baseball? Who tweets more about the game? Can you tell which team is the home team? (you can use <code>d = api.search(geocode='-95.355549,29.757480,5mi)</code> to get Tweets from Houston. Use Google or Bing maps to get a similar bounding box around Fenway Park). | ||
== Congratulations!!!!== | == Congratulations!!!!== |