Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

Fetching the Twitter data

Naturally, we need tweets and their corresponding labels that describe sentiments. In this chapter, we will use the corpus from Niek Sanders, who has done an awesome job of manually labeling more than 5,000 tweets as positive, negative, or neutral and has granted us permission to use it in this chapter.

To comply with Twitter terms of services, we will not provide any data from Twitter nor show any real tweets in this chapter. Instead, we can use Sander's hand-labeled data, which contains the tweet IDs and their hand-labeled sentiments. We will use Twitter's API to fetch the corresponding tweets one by one. To not bore you too much, just execute the first part of the corresponding Jupyter notebook, which will start ...