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ncaa-twitter

This repository integrates Deephaven with Twitter and Python's Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to pull recent tweets and evaluate sentiment in real-time. We start by pulling the data and running a SentimentIntensityAnalyzer on each tweet. We then aggregate the posts to see the overall positivity or negativity of that term on Twitter with time. Running ./ncaa-twitter.sh will create open deephaven on http://localhost:10000/ide.

The code in this repository is built for Deephaven Community Core v0.10.0. No guarantee of forwards or backwards compatibility is given. Additionally, the Twiiter API has changed since that release.

How it works

Components

  • Dockerfile - The Dockerfile for the application. This extends the default Deephaven images to add dependencies. See our guide, How to install Python packages, for more information.
  • docker-compose.yml - The Docker Compose file for the application. This is mostly the same as the Deephaven docker-compose file with modifications to run (NLTK)](https://www.nltk.org/) with Twitter V2 API and custom dependencies.
  • ncaa-twitter.sh - A simple helper script to launch the application.
  • data/notebooks/ncaa.py - A Deephaven sample query to pull Tweets.

High level overview

Twitter is a firehose of data from which - if used properly - we can learn a lot about social sentiment. There are cases such as with GameStop where attitudes expressed on social media led to huge market changes. If this behavior can be predicted, you have the potential to make a lot of money. Most of the time, you can scroll Twitter for a long time and not glean much insight. With Deephaven and a little bit of natural language processing, we can quickly determine the overall sentiment of a topic to provide a rough idea of the future outlook.

We'll show you how to pull in Twitter data and process that in Deephaven. This data can then be combined with other data - for this post, we chose to look at cryptocurrency, but the possibilities are endless.

Dependencies

Launch

To launch the latest release, you can clone the repository via:

git clone https://github.com/deephaven-examples/ncaa-twitter.git
cd ncaa-twitter

A start script will install the needed python modules. It will also start the Deephaven IDE.

To run it, execute:

sh ncaa-twitter.sh

Running this script will start several Docker containers that work together to launch Deephaven with the needed dependancies. To view the data navigate to http://localhost:10000/ide. To view the data you need to edit the keys.py file with your infomration.

Prereqs

Twitter provides an API to make it easy to pull public tweets. In order to use this code as-is, you need to also have a Twitter Developer account and copy your Bearer Token.

Run the program

This program is intended to be fine-tuned to fit your data needs. As is this will pull in the live tweets for the NCAA teams. It will perform sentiment on the tweets and aggregate the tweets to assess if that team is positive/negative to guide wins.

Your turn

This code provides a basic starter. You can use it to make your own searches, tie to other programs, or just see how social media is doing.

We hope this program inspires you. If you make something of your own or have an idea to share, we'd love to hear about it on Gitter!

NCAA_4

This Python script has data already pulled. So no Twitter Bearer-token needed.

March 27th was the last game of the Elite 8 in Men's Basketball, while March 28th concluded that round of Women's Basketball. As of then we are down to these teams:

elite_8_mens =['razorbackmbb', 'dukembb', 'uhcougarmbk', 'kuhoops', 'caneshoops', 'peacocksmbb', 'unc_basketball', 'novambb']
elite_8_womens =['stanfordwbb', 'texaswbb', 'gamecockwbb', 'creightonwbb', 'uconnwbb', 'packwomensbball', 'uoflwbb', 'umichwbball']

To see how the teams faired on twitter prior to the last games can pull in Twitter data for up to 7 days prior to that event. Since each game happened at different times read in the csv files that tweets from March 23 - March 30 to explore before and after.

Processing

In collecting tweeet data, we then perform sentiment analysis on this data using NLTK-Vader. VADeR (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is the best chioce for tweets because it takes into account the emphasis of tweets with punctuation.

For example, the tweet @KUHoops I wish!! gets a sentiment score of 73% positive, while without exclamation, it would be more neutral.

To understand the Men's Elite 8 data, for this time frame we collected 1,111 unique tweets for the Saint Peter's Peacocks. Each tweet was re-tweeted about 1,200 times and the overall sentiment is slightly positive at a 17% rate.

For the Women's Elite 8, Louisville Cardinals had the most positive twitter sentiment at 25% but only had 482 discrete tweets with each being re-tweeted about 35 times.

The next set is the final 4. Lot's of predictions! How is twitter feeling. This data is from March 28 until this the time of writing.

final_4_mens = ['dukembb', 'kuhoops', 'unc_basketball', 'novambb']
final_4_womens =['stanfordwbb', 'gamecockwbb', 'uconnwbb', 'uoflwbb']

There are some sample aggregates and plots to get you started. We look forward to seeing what you make on Slack!

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