arivero / nygraph_twitter

Replicating The New York Times' Twitter bot analysis

This code replicates the plots used in this analysis by The New York Times using Python and R.

Blog post.

Just edit config-sample.py with the development credentials obtained for your account and rename it to config.py. Then:

1. Run python get_data.py account_name to get data for that account.
2. Run Rscript plot_data.R account_name to save a JPG file with the desired plot. Alternatively, you can start R in interactive mode and call the save_username_plot function to obtain a ggplot2 object.