twitterpersona 0.2.0

Assess whether a twitter is positive or negative based on the user's recent tweets

twitterpersona

Assess a twitter user's character based on their recent tweets

Summary

Twitter is a popular social media app with over 1 billion user accounts. While a diversity of users is a strength, some individuals have concerns with the prevalence of "troll" accounts and individuals who exhibit unconstructive tone and diction whom they deem not worth engaging with. The package twitterpersona is intended to provide insight into a twitter user based on their tweet history in effort to determine if an account is worth engaging with. The package provides an easy to use interface for determining the general sentiment expressed by a user.

Functions

load_twitter : Returns a user's recent tweets (as a dataframe) given their user id using the Twitter API.

generalPreprocessing : Cleans the recent tweet dataframe generated by load_twitter. Includes features such as removing punctuation and extracting emojis.

get_sentiment_result : Determines the general (average) sentiment of recent tweets.

create_wordcloud : Generates a word cloud of most frequently used words in tweets.

Scope and Fit

There are existing packages that preform tweet analysis (including twitter-sentiment-analysis, tweetlytics, and pytweet). However, none of these packages focus of providing metrics in the context of determining if the twitter user is worth engaging with.

Contributing

Interested in contributing? Check out the contributing guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md. Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

License

twitterpersona was created by Andy Wang, Renzo Wijngaarden, Roan Raina, Yurui Feng. It is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Credits

twitterpersona was created with cookiecutter and the py-pkgs-cookiecutter template.