In this lesson, you will learn how to perform basic data mining tasks on Twitter data. First, you will learn how to authenticate with Twitter. Next you will learn about using Twitter metadata and how to extract relevant information from a Tweet. Finally, you will perform some basic analysis on Twitter data by using Python. This will also require learning more about the JSON data format.
###Objectives ### By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand the basic web authentication mechanisms
- Understand how to extract and use social media metadata
- Understand how to extract and analyze data from tweets
Approximately 3 hours.
- Official Twitter Developer Documents Site
- The Python Twitter Library
- Other Twitter Data Mining Ideas
- JSON Introduction
- JSON & Python
When you have completed and worked through the above readings, please take the Week 8 Lesson 3 Assessment.