R Machine Learning By Example

Twitter data mining

Now that we have tested our tools, libraries, and connections to Twitter APIs, the time has come to begin our search for the hidden treasures in Twitter land. Let's wear our data miner's cap and start digging!

In this section, we will be working on Twitter data gathered from searching keywords (or hashtags in Twitter vocabulary) and user timelines. Using this data, we will be uncovering some interesting insights while using different functions and utilities from TwitteR and other R packages.

Note

Please note that our process will implicitly follow the steps outlined for data mining. In the spirit of brevity, we might take the liberty to not mention each of the steps explicitly. We are mining for some gold-plated insights; rest ...