Twitter Classifiers

My attempts at using text classification schemes to interpret Twitter stream data. Built on Ruby 1.9.2 (not sure if it works on 1.8).

Displayed Methods

• Naive Bayes Classifier
• Support Vector Machines
• Simple word frequency

Examples

• Retweet classifier
• "Happy tweet" classifier
• Manual classifier
• Twitter "firehose" plumbing

Resources

• @igvita on using Bayes Classifiers in Ruby
• @hmason's library for classifying Twitter data
• Reference page for Ruby AI libraries
• Official page for SVM library

Todo

• Add more examples
• Address the distinct lack of tests