[ACM Press the 12th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference - College Park, Maryland (2011.06.12-2011.06.15)] Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Digital Government Innovation in Challenging Times - dg.o '11 - Collecting, analyzing and visualizing tweets using open source tools

✍ Scribed by Yang, Seungwon; Kavanaugh, Andrea L.

• Book ID: 120992308
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1450307620
• DOI: 10.1145/2037556.2037633

✦ Synopsis

This tutorial introduces various open source tools and methods to archive tweets on a user's local machine and convert them into topic clouds for quick content analysis. For more in-depth analysis of the content, basic natural language processing techniques such as n-grams and term extraction are introduced along with PHP/Python scripting.