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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data acquisition using Twitter

The Twitter API is used in conjunction with HBC's HTTP client to acquire tweets, as previously illustrated in the Handling Twitter section of Chapter 2, Data Acquisition. This process involves using the public stream API at the default access level to pull a sample of public tweets currently streaming on Twitter. We will refine the data based on user-selected keywords.

To begin, we declare the TwitterStream class. It consists of two instance variables, (numberOfTweets and topic), two constructors, and a stream method. The numberOfTweets variable contains the number of tweets to select and process, and topic allows the user to search for tweets related to a specific topic. We have set our default constructor to pull ...

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