Context

Data set containing Tweets captured during the Nintendo E3 2018 Conference.

Content

All Twitter APIs that return Tweets provide that data encoded using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). JSON is based on key-value pairs, with named attributes and associated values. The JSON file include the following objects and attributes:

• Tweet - Tweets are the basic atomic building block of all things Twitter. The Tweet object has a long list of ‘root-level’ attributes, including fundamental attributes such as id, created_at, and text. Tweet child objects include user, entities, and extended_entities. Tweets that are geo-tagged will have a place child object.

  • User - Contains public Twitter account metadata and describes the author of the Tweet with attributes as name, description, followers_count, friends_count, etc.

  • Entities - Provide metadata and additional contextual information about content posted on Twitter. The entities section provides arrays of common things included in Tweets: hashtags, user mentions, links, stock tickers (symbols), Twitter polls, and attached media.

  • Extended Entities - All Tweets with attached photos, videos and animated GIFs will include an extended_entities JSON object.

  • Places - Tweets can be associated with a location, generating a Tweet that has been ‘geo-tagged.’

More information here.

Acknowledgements

I used the filterStream() function to open a connection to Twitter's Streaming API, using the keywords #NintendoE3 and #NintendoDirect. The capture started on Tuesday, June 12th 04:00 am UCT and finished on Tuesday, June 12th 05:00 am UCT.

Inspiration

• Time analysis
• Try text mining!
• Cross-language differences in Twitter
• Use this data to produce a sentiment analysis
• Twitter geolocation
• Network analysis: graph theory, metrics and properties of the network, community detection, network visualization, etc.

Mapping of CSD model attribute values to JSON serialized values.