Virginia Tech. Department of Computer Science. Digital Library Research LaboratoryYang, SeungwonKavanaugh, Andrea L.2015-05-262015-05-262011-06-01Seungwon 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.http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52595This 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.2 pagesapplication/pdfen-USIn CopyrightMicrobloggingWord cloudsVisualizationNatural language processing (Computer science)Information retrievalLearning objecthttp://eventsarchive.org/sites/default/files/Twitter%20tutorial%20submitted.pdf