I’ve been in contact with the team over at Stattleship. They have a cool API that allows you to get various stats for basketball, football and hockey. I used data from that API to create the following data visualization for their blog. The visualization shows the offensive and special team yards gained by each team […]

Because Twitter is fun and so are graphs, I have tweet volume graphs from my Twitter scraper that collects tweets with the team-specific nicknames and Twitter handles. After a trade (or non-trade), the data can be collected and a graphical picture of the reaction can be produced. The graph represents the volume of sampled tweets […]

Part I: Introduction | Part II: Getting Started [current page] | Part III: Using a Python Stream Listener | Part IV: Storing Tweets in MongoDB | Part V: Twitter JSON to CSV — Errors | Part VI: Twitter JSON to CSV — ASCII | Part VII: Twitter JSON to CSV — UTF-8 The R code […]

Part I: Introduction [current page] | Part II: Getting Started | Part III: Using a Python Stream Listener | Part IV: Storing Tweets in MongoDB | Part V: Twitter JSON to CSV — Errors | Part VI: Twitter JSON to CSV — ASCII | Part VII: Twitter JSON to CSV — UTF-8 Collecting Twitter data […]

I collected tweets about the 2015 State of the Union address [SOTU] in real time from 10am to 2am using the keywords [obama, state of the union, sotu, sotusocial, ernst]. The tweets were analyzed for sentiment, content, emoji, hashtags, and retweets. The graph below shows Twitter activity over the course of the night. The volume […]

On Twitter, about 10% of general-topic tweets contain emoji characters, the tiny icons and emoticons, which are starting to get more attention when analyzing tweets, Facebook messages, or text messages. An emoji [] can capture an emotion or completely change the meaning of the written text. Before exploring how different emojis are used and what […]

If you have every wondered if you could watch every James Bond movie without watching the same actor play James Bond in a row or how many different possibilities there were, you’ve unsuspectedly ventured into graph theory. Graph theory is basically the study of connected things. These can be bridges, social networks, or in this […]

Adding to the basic text analytics I wrote about last week, I ran a bag-of-word sentiment analysis on CNN’s midterm election coverage on transcripts found on their site. Fortunately, all the transcripts have a time stamp on them denoting what hour of programming the transcript covers, so I was able to attach a time of […]

Bias is a problem every news media outlet has in some form beyond the well-debated political slants that Fox News and MSNBC are renown for. I’ve been attempting to quantify biases using text analytics. By looking at the frequency and topics of articles, word choices, and associated words, I believe that you can find analytical […]