Half-Day Tutorial: Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Tweets Using Open Source Tools
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2011-06-01
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This tutorial introduces various open source tools and methods to archive tweets on a user's local machine and convert them into topic clouds for quick content analysis. For more in-depth techniques such as n-grams and term extraction are introduced along with PHP/Python scripting.
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Microblogging, Word clouds, Visualization, Natural language processing (Computer science), Information retrieval
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Seungwon Yang and Andrea Kavanaugh. Half-Day Tutorial: Collecting, Analyzing and Visualizing Tweets using Open Source Tools. ACM 2011 Digital Government Research Conference (2011), June 12-15, 2011 (College Park, MD). New York: ACM Press.