Machine Learning Flashcards from Twitter -- Part 1 Data Collection and Preprocessing

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I was searching the net for mlflashcards, I found this incredible machine learning flashcard tweet series from Chris Albon. It looks pretty and covers a lot of ground, Got a thought – why not download them for later use? I thought it would be a fun exercise to start the weekend and jumped into action.

Step 1 – Collect/Scrape data from twitter

I evaluated using twitter api using tweetpy, but it has its own limitation aka we can search only a week worth of data which is not good for our use case. We shoud be able to get data spread across months since the tweets we are interested are spread across a wide time range.

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Machine Learning Flashcards from Twitter -- Part 1 Data Collection and Preprocessing

Step 1 – Collect/Scrape data from twitter