Natural Language Processing
There are many different methods and ways to study Twitter data. Unlike more traditional text (e.g. books), discourse on twitter can encompass a wide range of perspectives, ideas, thoughts, and context. The analysis of this discourse is something that needs that requires different cleaning methods, refinement, and categorization.
This tutorial takes frequency pairs collected in Counting frequencies and outputs them in HTML, which teachs how to select a keyword and toutput all instances of that keyword, along with the words to the left and right of it, making it easy to see at a glance how the keyword is used.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series, and will look at tokenizing and extracting key features from a Tweet.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series. This recipe will describe Panda dataframe manipulation, in particular the techniques used for some of the more advanced Twitter analysis found in the TATR library.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series. The recipe will show how to load and save a CSV (comma-separated values) file into a Panda data structure.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series and describes how to begin plotting basic graphs using Twitter data.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series. The recipe will look at categorizing text using the General Inquirer Categories released by Harvard.
This recipe is part of the Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) series. In this recipe we will show you how to use a dataset of Tweets to find the most popular hashtags by date. The results can then be manipulated by placing them in a Panda dataframe and visualized by plotting the most popular hashtag points over time.
Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is a data analysis technique that can detect and represent the underlying structures of a dataset. In terms of textual analysis, we can identify and graph simultaneously occurring variables from the texts that comprise a corpus.
You can retrieve the MCA module at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mca/1.0.3, or by typing the following line in the Python terminal:
pip install --user mca
This recipe uses regular expressions (or Regex) to clean a text document. This recipe is based on the Using Regular Expressions to Clean a Text code.