This tool tracks over 7,000 tweets collected from July 2 to 16, 2018 relating to the local city debate on hosting the 2020 RNC Convention.
The tool was built from Garrick Aden-Buie's Excellent RStudio::conf() Twitter dashboard and the data was pulled using Mike Kearney's rtweet R package
You can view the dashboard here: https://unccviscenter.shinyapps.io/rnc-charlotte/
Studying Twitter typically requires keywords to filter to tweets; however, this problem is really hard (e.g., see King et al.).
For this data set, I used the following keywords (case insensitive):
"norncinclt or defendcharlotte or cltcc or rnc*"
*RNC was combined with local Charlotte terms (e.g., Charlotte, Vi Lyles, city council)