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  • Twitter API Streaming in Python

    Maybe the easiest way to connect to Twitter API and to stream tweets, is using Python and Tweepy. You can install Tweepy using pip: Tweepy is an open source library and you can check the source here. Maybe, take a peak at StreamListener class and see what additional options are available. ‘Nuff said. Here’s the…

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  • Java MapReduce for top N Twitter Hashtags

    Back in 2015 i had to implement MapReduce job to extract top 15 hashtags from  twitter’s raw data in Hadoop. This was a part of Business Intelligence lecture exercise at Vienna University of Technology. Regex used (not the best one by my opinion), for hashtag extraction, has following format: String regex = “text\”:\\\”(.*)\\\”,\”source”; The ‘source’ field comes…

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