Tutorials

Slack: #tutorials

Project Description: A place for tutorials relevant to D4D projects.

Project Leads:

List of Tutorials

External Learning Resources Reference of resources that members of D4D have found useful in learning some of the languages, platforms, libraries, and methods applicable to D4D projects.

AWS S3 using boto3 How to interact with S3 bucket from python using boto3 library.

Intro Collecting Tweets Getting started using the Twitter API for downloading Tweets.
Twitter Getting Past the 32K Limit How to obtain all the Tweets from a given user.
Streaming Tweets From Twitter Great example on how to Stream (listen to live events) Tweets.
Basic Twitter Analysis Simple word frequency analysis and tokenization.
Interactive Maps with Python's Folium Interactive Maps of Tweets (excuse the sample size for this tutorial).
Clustering Twitter Clustering a user's followers by using KMeans.
Building a Graph with Twitter Short tutorial on how to build a Graph of Twitter friends and followers using Networkx.

If you're new to using git and GitHub, download git and create a GitHub account, then head over to our GitHub playground repo. Follow the instructions in the README to learn how it's done!

If you have some cool ideas for tutorial or want to see a tutorial that is not yet present please feel free to add it to our Wish List

If you want to contribute your own tutorials or have any comments please open up an issue. This way we can avoid duplicates.
If you you happen to have a cool idea for a tutorial or want to request a tutorial on a given subject/tool please feel free to open up an issue requesting it.