Analyzing tweets - time series analysis
The previous sections analyzed the content of tweets. In this section, we will discuss another interesting aspect of analyzing data from Twitter-the distribution of tweets over time.
Generally speaking, a time series is a sequence of data points that consists of successive observations over a given interval of time. As Twitter provides a created_at field with the precise timestamp of the tweet, we can rearrange tweets into temporal buckets so that we can examine how users react to real-time events. We are interested in observing how a population of users is tweeting, not just a single user, so the data gathered via the Streaming API is most suited for this type of analysis.
The analysis in this section uses ...
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