Creating a simple command line streaming twitter search engine using node.js
About two weeks ago I published an article on Texas fan sentiment analysis, based on over 50,000 tweets I collected the day of the Valero Alamo Bowl. This was fairly straightforward, as I utilized the code my colleague Taylor Smith created and modified it for my purposes. My biggest changes came with how I analyzed the data. The problem I had was that the process of obtaining the tweets tied up my R console. This was problematic because I could neither use R, nor start looking at the data. Another problem was I had to determine up front how long I wanted to run the search. I could kill the process, but if the game ran past the time I had set, I would have to rush and restart it again. ...