tweets_to_pickle.ipynb

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    "__Subject:__ Topics of Tweets of US Congress through \n",
    "             the Lens of Campaign Finance\n",
    "\n",
    "__Date:__ 09/08/2018\n",
    "\n",
    "__Author:__ Edmund D. Chitwood\n",
    "\n",
    "***"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "__Summary:__<br>\n",
    "<br>The following Notebook \n",
    "- reads all Tweets from CSV files,\n",
    "- reads them into a Pandas DataFrame,and\n",
    "- then pickles the DataFrame.\n",
    "***"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 1,
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   "source": [
    "import pandas as pd\n",
    "import pickle"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
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   "source": [
    "# Navigate to data folder which contains csv files\n",
    "# with Tweets and Tweet metadata by all members of \n",
    "# Congress and get names of all csv files\n",
    "csv_names = !var=\"cd data && ls\" && eval $var\n",
    "csv_names = list(csv_names)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 28,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# Initialize DataFrame to hold Tweets and Tweet metadata\n",
    "tweets = pd.read_csv('data/'+csv_names[0],sep=';',header=None)"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
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    "# Read in data for all members of Congress\n",
    "for i in range(1,len(csv_names)):\n",
    "    new_tweets = pd.read_csv('data/'+csv_names[i],sep=';',header=None)\n",
    "    tweets = tweets.append(new_tweets)"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 30,
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   "source": [
    "tweets.columns = (['username','date','retweets','favorites','text','mentions',\\\n",
    "                   'hashtags','id','permalink'])"
   ]
  },
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   "execution_count": 33,
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       "      <th>username</th>\n",
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       "      <th>retweets</th>\n",
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       "      <td>2013-01-08 15:35:43</td>\n",
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       "              username                 date  retweets  favorites  \\\n",
       "11006  SenatorHeitkamp  2013-01-11 13:54:34         0          0   \n",
       "11007  SenatorHeitkamp  2013-01-09 20:06:00         2          0   \n",
       "11008  SenatorHeitkamp  2013-01-09 14:59:38         1          0   \n",
       "11009  SenatorHeitkamp  2013-01-08 15:35:43         0          0   \n",
       "11010  SenatorHeitkamp  2013-01-07 20:35:01         1          2   \n",
       "\n",
       "                                                    text         mentions  \\\n",
       "11006  Editorial from @MinotDailyNews - Heitkamp isn'...  @MinotDailyNews   \n",
       "11007  Good mtg w/ Sec. Salazar @Interior today to ta...        @Interior   \n",
       "11008  Heitkamp responds to attack ads: http:// bit.l...         @bistrib   \n",
       "11009  NDs interested in attending Inauguration- call...              NaN   \n",
       "11010  Facebook page is up and running! http://www. f...              NaN   \n",
       "\n",
       "           hashtags                  id  \\\n",
       "11006           NaN  289732034081980416   \n",
       "11007  #NorthDakota  289100727811457024   \n",
       "11008           NaN  289023633710538752   \n",
       "11009           NaN  288670326336921603   \n",
       "11010           NaN  288383256968187904   \n",
       "\n",
       "                                               permalink  \n",
       "11006  https://twitter.com/SenatorHeitkamp/status/289...  \n",
       "11007  https://twitter.com/SenatorHeitkamp/status/289...  \n",
       "11008  https://twitter.com/SenatorHeitkamp/status/289...  \n",
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   "source": [
    "tweets.head()"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 40,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "tweets.to_pickle('congress_tweets.pkl')"
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