Text mining of social media content

Twitter is one of the most popular social networks through which millions of users share information and express views and opinions.  The rapid growth of internet data is a driver for  mining the huge amount of unstructured data that is generated to uncover insights from it.

In this study we explore different text mining tools.  We collect tweets containing the “#MachineLearning”  hashtag, prepare the data and run a series of diagnostics to mine the text that is contained in tweets.  We also examine the issue of topic modeling that allows to estimate the similarity between documents in a larger corpus.

The analysis we present is not based on a theoretical framework.  The main purpose is to explore a variety of tools to derive insights from data.  The data to reproduce the analysis is available on my github.

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