Russian Troll Tweets Exploration

What is this?

The good people at FiveThirtyEight were kind enough to release the tweets and handles of Russian Trolls in the lead-up and following the 2016 election. These data were assembled by Clemson University researchers Darren Linvill, & Patrick Warren. I'll let FiveThirtyEight explain more, here. I'm just exploring the data they released here.

Installation

• Run git clone git@github.com:fivethirtyeight/russian-troll-tweets.git to get the Russian tweets.
• Run python3 -m venv env to set up your virtual environment.
• Run source env/bin/activate to activate your virtual environment.
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the Python packages you'll need.
• Run npm install -g http-server (you might want to install NVM first).

Running

• Run jupyter notebook and pull up model-topics.ipynb.
• Run everything in there.

Getting visualizations working

• Run cp intermediate-data/english-only-doc2vec-data.json doc2vec-graphics/som-account-type-viz/data/data.json.
• Run http-server from within the doc2vec-graphics/som-account-type-viz/ folder.
• Go to http://localhost:8080.

When you're done

• Run deactivate.