Tweets During Cavaliers Vs Warriors

Context

Data set containing Tweets captured during the 3rd game of the 2018 NBA Finals between Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors.

Content

All Twitter APIs that return Tweets provide that data encoded using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). JSON is based on key-value pairs, with named attributes and associated values. The JSON file include the following objects and attributes:

• Tweet - Tweets are the basic atomic building block of all things Twitter. The Tweet object has a long list of ‘root-level’ attributes, including fundamental attributes such as id, created_at, and text. Tweet child objects include user, entities, and extended_entities. Tweets that are geo-tagged will have a place child object.

  • User - Contains public Twitter account metadata and describes the author of the Tweet with attributes as name, description, followers_count, friends_count, etc.

  • Entities - Provide metadata and additional contextual information about content posted on Twitter. The entities section provides arrays of common things included in Tweets: hashtags, user mentions, links, stock tickers (symbols), Twitter polls, and attached media.

  • Extended Entities - All Tweets with attached photos, videos and animated GIFs will include an extended_entities JSON object.

  • Places - Tweets can be associated with a location, generating a Tweet that has been ‘geo-tagged.’

More information here.

I also included the captured Tweets in a CSV file. In order to convert JSON data into a CSV file, I used the function parseTweets().

Acknowledgements

I used the filterStream() function to open a connection to Twitter's Streaming API, using the keyword #NBAFinals. The capture started on Thursday, June 7th 01:13 am UCT and finished on Thursday, June 7th 01:58 am UCT.

Inspiration

• Time analysis
• Try text mining!
• Cross-language differences in Twitter
• Use this data to produce a sentiment analysis
• Twitter geolocation
• Network analysis: graph theory, metrics and properties of the network, community detection, network visualization, etc.