/loadsatweets

Primary LanguageRuby

loadsatweets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OF1TomJlM

This is a simple little project you can do to play with Ruby arrays, hashes, and numbers.

Working in irb/pry

Go through these in irb.

require 'json'

ten_tweets = File.read 'ten_tweets.json'
parsed_tweets = JSON.parse ten_tweets

tweet_texts = parsed_tweets.map{|tweet| tweet['text']}
tweet_words = tweet_texts.map{|text| text.splig}
words = tweet_words.flatten

word_count = Hash.new(0)
words.each do |w|
  word_count[w] += 1
end

Now you should have a hash of word counts.

Next Steps

  1. "Ruby" and "ruby" are the same word, normalize them.

  2. "ruby" and "ruby." are the same word, normalize them.

  3. What should we count "conmigo.♥" as?

  4. What words are used the most?

  5. Any guessees on what I searched for?

Files

  • Gemfile - loads gems

  • Gemfile.lock - loads gems

  • README.md - this file

  • clean.rb - script to clean up raw_tweets.json

  • raw_tweets.json - over five thousand tweets right from Twitter's streaming API

  • ten_tweets.json - ten clean and easy-to-parse tweets

  • tweets.json - over five thousand tweets that are easy-to-parse (but there are still over five thousand of them)