This is the project goal.
- Professor Max Fowler
- Gabriel Quinones
- Akshaya Prasad
- Isaiah Fisher
- We are scraping Tweets relating to high impact events from Twitter.
- We are collecting tweets using this library
- Below is a table showing the queries used to collect the tweets.
- Tweets from the day the event occured to a week after are analyzed, and all tweets which contain the search terms are collected.
| Event | Search Terms |
|---|---|
| Aurora theater shooting | "aurora shooting" "theatre shooting" |
| Sandy Hook | "sandy hook" |
| Washington Navy Yard Shooting | "navy yard shooting" |
| Umpqua Community College shooting | "umpqua college shooting" "umpqua shooting" |
| Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting | "colorado springs shooting" "planned parenthood shooting" |
| San Bernardino attack | "san bernardino attack" |
| Charleston church shooting | "charleston church shooting" "church shooting" |
| Orlando nightclub shooting | "nightclub shooting" "orlando nightclub shooting" |
| Dallas Police officers shooting | "dallas police shooting" |
| Fort Lauderdale airport shooting | "airport shooting" |
| North Park Elementary School shooting | "north park school shooting" "elementary school schooting" |
| Las Vegas shooting | "las vegas shooting" |
| Sutherland Springs church shooting | "sutherland springs shooting" "texas church shooting" |
| Copper Canyon Apartment shooting | "colorado apartment shooting" "copper canyon shooting" "colorado shooting" |
| Stoneman Douglas(Parkland Florida) High School shooting | "parkland shooting" |
- Tweets are notoriously noisy data so before they are analyzed they must be pre-processed
- Fortunately many libraries exist to help with this task.
- This preprocessor library allows us to remove most of the extraneous information from tweets such as URLs, hashtags, and emojis.
- Natural Languaga ToolKit (NLTK) library was used to remove stop words from the tweets.
- July 20, 2012 - Aurora theater shooting
- December 12, 2012 - Sandy Hook
- September 16, 2013 - Washington Navy Yard shooting
- October 1, 2015 - Umpqua Community College shooting
- November 27,2015 - Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
- December 2, 2015 - San Bernardino attack
- June 17, 2015 - Charleston church shooting
- June 12, 2016 - Orlando nightclub shooting
- July 7, 2016 - Dallas Police officers shooting
- January 6, 2017 - Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
- April 10, 2017 - North Park Elementary School shooting
- October 1, 2017 - Las Vegas shooting
- November 5, 2017 - Sutherland Springs church shooting
- December 31, 2017 - Copper Canyon Apartment shooting
- February 14, 2018 - Stoneman Douglas(Parkland Florida) High School shooting
- May 18, 2018 - Santa Fe High School shooting