The Voice Afrique Tweets Mining Part 2

In the previous post, we showed how to use Twitter API and the excellent Tweepy Python library to collect data and store them in a MongoDB database. It's now time to start aking questions.

Many of the questions that we ask of our tweets data can be answered through social network analysis. Questions such as who is important?, who talks to whom?, and what is important? can all be answered through a network. Using proper network measures, we can find these important actors or topics in a network.

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The Voice Afrique Tweets Mining Part 1

The Voice Afrique francophone (TVA) is a singing competition where contestants are chosen based on thier voice during a performance where the coaches face the public and can only hear them. The show started on Sturday, 15 October and will go until February, the 4th 2017. The show is broadcasted on Vox Africa. For more information, you can look here.

In this post series, we will use various data science tools to analyse the tweets we collected about the event.

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