ShyamW / Political_Tweet_Analysis

Mines and Analyzes tweets from political candidates

Political Tweet Analysis

This Python project fetches and streams political tweets and analyzes each tweet through graphs and wordclouds.

Analyzed rhetoric elements include:

• diction (word choice and frequency)
• syllables (in future)
• tweet time (in future)
• tweet frequency

This Project fetches tweets from several famous political candidates including:

• Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
• Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)
• Jeb Bush (@JebBush)
• John Kasich (@JohnKassich)
• Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)
• Carly Fiorina (@CarlyFiorina)
• Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders)
• Marco Rubio (@marorubio)
• President Obama (@POTUS and @BarrackObama)

Basic Requirements:

1. Python 2.X (Required)

   • Python 2.7 recommended

       sudo apt-get install python
     

2. ConfigParser (Required)

   • Used to Read API Key information

       pip install ConfigParser
     

3. datetime (Required)

   • Used to Get Python Standardized time (included in python 2.7)

       pip install datetime
     

Requirements to Fetch and Stream Tweets

1. tweepy

   • Used to stream and fetch tweets. Unnecessary for Analyzing tweets.

       pip install tweepy
     

Requirements to Analyze Tweets

1. matplotlib

   • Used to create graphs

       pip install matplotlib
     

2. TkInter (Optional)

   • Used in graph creation

       sudo apt-get install python python-tk
     

3. wordcloud

   • Used in wordcloud creation

       sudo apt-get install wordcloud
     

4. Image

   • library required for wordcloud

       sudo apt-get install Image