Mining Twitter Data in Python using Tweepy

Introduction I will be extracting twitter data using a python library called Tweepy. For a quick tutorial on tweepy read this post. In this post we will learn how to retrieve Twitter credentials for API access, then we will setup a Twitter stream using tweepy to fetch public tweets. After some preprocessing of tweets we …

Introduction to Python TextBlob: Simplified Text Processing

TextBlob is a Python (2 and 3) library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more. TextBlob is a wrapper around NLTK library which is used for text processing and NLP. NLTK is …