This package represents a suite of Twitter data processing tools. These tools are designed to work with GNIP-Enriched Twitter data (https://gnip.com), but could easily be adapted to process original Twitter data formats.
The scripts are designed to be executed in-place so no installation is necessary. For convenience a computational workflow is available that will process raw tweets and produce a number of tweet-based measures of immediate concern. The workflow assumes Ebola tweets are available in data/raw (see run-workflow for details).
The run-workflow tool was used to generate tweet-based measures of immediate concern (TIC), which were included as part of a publication submitted to the journal Nature. The entire computational workflow and all computational tools are available as part of this open source package so this study can be fully replicated.