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Leicester City Wins the English Premier League (Motivation)

I wanted to play with the Twitter streaming API and I thought that collecting tweets during the historic moment when Leicester wins the league would be interesting.

Details

I used the Twitter streaming API and polled Tweets based on certain hashtags and then saved and analyzed the Tweets using the following tools:

• A node.js app
• AWS Firehose Kinesis
• S3 bucket
• PySpark

As the title contention stretched over two matches, I was able to record Twitter's reaction to both the Manchester United vs Leicester City match (May 1, 2016) and the Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur match (May 2, 2016). Further I actually collected tweets for about four hours after Leicester had won the league. This period should also throw up some interesting information.

For now I have made a visualization based on the occurrence of specific words over the course of these two matches. Clicking on the left image will lead to the visualization

Code

Possible Todos

• Adapt the visualization to look at occurrence of emotions in tweets during the match
• Do some sort of network analysis on the tweets