twitter-data

Scripts for scraping, wrangling, geocoding, analyzing, and mapping Twitter data

Description: twitter_analysis_trump

The script covers

• scraping Twitter data from user timeline
• text cleaning of tweets using tm (e.g., removing URLs, RTs, handles and emojis from text)
• mining them by
  • extracting and plotting word frequencies
  • visualizing word clouds
  • finding word associations
  • visualizing popularity statistics (number of favourites and retweets)
  • extracting and visualizing publication dates
  • conducting sentiment analyses

using the example of Donald Trump's tweets.

Description: twitter_user_location

The script covers

• scraping Twitter data by hashtag
• scraping corresponding user infos of tweet authors
• geocoding user locations using Google Maps API
• cleaning geocoded user locations and merging them with corresponding tweets
• mapping user locations with leaflet and ggplot2

using the example of #MeToo.