Mining Bill Gates’ Tweets Using R

This is a guest post by Preetish Panda. Twitter has always been a rich source of social data that allows us to perform analysis on wide range of topics. Considering more than 6,000 tweets are posted per second and the open API gives real-time access, twitter data mining has compelling use cases in trend analysis, brand sentiment measurement, and feedback aggregation of new products and services. In this study, we’re going to extract tweets posted by twitter handle of Bill Gates and perform exploratory analysis along with text mining using `R`. Extracting data First off all, we need to create a twitter app that would allow us to fetch required data via Twitter API. Perform the activities given below to [...] Continue Reading