GitHub repository: CBMIWU/twitter-mining-workshop
Primary language: Python
Created: 2015-12-07T21:08:58Z
Description: This is a basic hands-on workshop on mining Twitter data using Python. Twitter public data offers a lot of possibilities in public health research and this workshop will be interesting to public health and informatics researchers, as well as everyone interested in social media data mining. The workshop doesn't require Python knowledge, because scripts and programming environment will be readily provided to attendees in a computer lab. Attendees will learn how to access public data on Twitter using Python programming language, how the data is structured (what is JSON format), how the data can be filtered, analyzed and graphed, and also how to export results into CSV format.