Politweets

Social Media Tracker for the US 2016 Presidential Elections

Brian Kim

Data Scientist · Software Engineer

#COMPLICATED

#BORING

#BIASED

#social

#automated
#simple

POLITWEETS

· Twitter Trend Analysis for Potential    

  Candidates

· Topic, Sentiment and 

    Location  analysis

· Fully automated realtime updates

#social

STREAMING API

#automated

#simple

#beautiful

Challenge #1

Twitter Streaming API Location Tracking

(40.7127° N, 74.0059° W)

3,143 Counties

Unsupervised Nearest

Neighbors Learning Model

· Custom Twitter Streaming API Module

· Cached KD Tree from Scikit Learn

· Real time with NO LAG

Challenge #2

Twitter Streaming API Low Tweet Count

Lack of Tweets

in

Low Population Areas

Bayesian Bootstrapping

Intelligently and accurately boosting tweet counts

and reliably estimating sentiment

Challenge #3

Twitter Streaming API

Sentiment and Topic Analysis

Sentiment Analysis

Topic Analysis

VADER

(Valence Aware

Dictionary and

sEntiment Reasoner) 

LIVE DEMO

Politweets