This is a Twitter data mining project to quickly get an overall idea of the tweets about a trending topic. A sentimental analysis of the tweets is done and the findings are represented in the form of word clouds and dendrograms for easy understanding.
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Connection to Twitter, creating Word Clouds & Dendrograms - Code : Use this code as a guide to connect R with twitter and scrape data.
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Sample Outputs : The sample outputs for the Sentiment analysis of Twitter data can be found here.
So the next time you want to get a big picture about any topic on Twitter, use this code!
Note :
- Twitter allows only 15 scrapes in 15 minutes
- The Twitter Search API searches against a sampling of recent Tweets published in the past 7 days. So only tweets in the last 7 days can be mined