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Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition Data pre-processing, analysis and visualization using R and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129627
Length 434 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anthony Ojeda Anthony Ojeda
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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ABHIJIT DASGUPTA ABHIJIT DASGUPTA
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Sean P Murphy Sean P Murphy
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Bhushan Purushottam Joshi Bhushan Purushottam Joshi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing Your Data Science Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Driving Visual Analysis with Automobile Data with R 3. Creating Application-Oriented Analyses Using Tax Data and Python 4. Modeling Stock Market Data 5. Visually Exploring Employment Data 6. Driving Visual Analyses with Automobile Data 7. Working with Social Graphs 8. Recommending Movies at Scale (Python) 9. Harvesting and Geolocating Twitter Data (Python) 10. Forecasting New Zealand Overseas Visitors 11. German Credit Data Analysis

Creating a Twitter application


Twitter is the ubiquitous microblogging social media platform with 253 million active members as of 2014. Fortunately for us, Twitter makes the service's data more open and available to third parties than just about any other social media site of similar size and standing in the tech community. Additionally, Twitter offers a rich and user-friendly RESTful API that we will make use of extensively. This recipe will show you how to create a new Twitter application, which is a required step to access Twitter data programmatically.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have a web browser installed, and open up a new browser tab or window.

How to do it...

The following steps will walk you through the creation of a new Twitter application:

Note

Note that Twitter does like to update its user interface (UI) frequently and these steps, or the web-based forms, might change accordingly

  1. First, make sure that you have created a Twitter account. If you have not created one, go to http...
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