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Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition

By : Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar
Book Image

Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition

By: Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar

Overview of this book

Beyond buzzwords like Big Data or Data Science, there are a great opportunities to innovate in many businesses using data analysis to get data-driven products. Data analysis involves asking many questions about data in order to discover insights and generate value for a product or a service. This book explains the basic data algorithms without the theoretical jargon, and you’ll get hands-on turning data into insights using machine learning techniques. We will perform data-driven innovation processing for several types of data such as text, Images, social network graphs, documents, and time series, showing you how to implement large data processing with MongoDB and Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition
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Preface

Getting started with Twython


In this chapter, we will use Twython 3, which is a Python wrapper of the Twitter API v1.1. We can download the latest version of Twython from the pypi Python website:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twython

Then, we need to unzip and open the twython folder, and finally, we install the twython module with the following command:

>>> python3 setup.py install

Or, we can also install Twython through pip with the following command:

We can find the complete reference documentation for Twython in the following link:

https://twython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Tip

We can find a complete list of Twitter libraries for several programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, and so on, in the following link: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries

Simple search using Twython

In this example, we will perform a search of the word python and we will print the complete list of statuses in order to understand the format of the retrieved tweets.

First, we...