election-campaign 0.0.1

This library serves as an extension of and for the election campaign API, https://research-questions-api.herokuapp.com/redoc.

Election-Campaign-TPL

Purpose of the Package

• This library serves as an extension of and for the election campaign API (https://research-questions-api.herokuapp.com/docs#/). It is intended to aid developers who decide to use the API in a python IDE for research work related to election campaign and governance.

Features

• Collection of Research Questions Focus Areas
  • general_trends
    • get_alltweets()
    • get_limitedtweets()
    • get_filteredtweets()
  • politicians_reputation
    • get_alltweets()
    • count_alltwets()
  • citizens_sentiment
  • complaints_areas

Getting Started

The package can be found on pypi hence you can install it using pip

Installation

pip install election_campaign 

Usage

politicians_reputation

>>> from election_campaign import general_trends
>>>
>>> #Retrieve Nigeria centered-tweets using the general_trends.get_alltweets() function
>>> alltweets = general_trends.get_alltweets(data_type='json')
>>>
>>> #Retrieve limited Nigeria centered-tweets using the general_trends.get_limitedtweets() function
>>> limitedtweets = general_trends.get_limitedtweets(limit=10, data_type='pandas.dataframe')

Example

>>> from election_campaign import politicians_reputation
>>>
>>> #Retrieve the number of tweets about a certain politician from Nigeria centered-tweets using the politicians_reputation.get_alltweets() function
>>> tweetcount = politicians_reputation.count_alltweets(filter='Atiku Abubakar', data_type='json')
>>> print(tweetcount)
>>>
>>> '{"count": 1049}'
>>>
>>> tweetcount = politicians_reputation.count_alltweets(filter='Peter Obi', data_type='json')
>>> print(tweetcount)
>>>
>>> '{"count": 21261}'

Contribution

This Project is open to contribution and collaboration. Feel free to connect.

Author

• Main Maintainer: Michael Dubem Igbomezie