Streaming Data from Twitter for Analysis in Spark
Happy New Year! Our first blog entry of 2018 is a guest post from Josh Janzen, a data scientist based in Minnesota. Josh wanted to ingest tweets referencing NFL games into Spark, then run some analysis to look for a correlation between Twitter activity and game winners. Josh originally posted this entry on his personal blog, and kindly allowed us to repost it here. Over to you, Josh:
Tis the season of NFL football, and one way to capture excitement is Twitter data. I’ve tickered around with Twitter’s Developer API before, but this time I wanted to use a streaming product I’ve heard good things about: StreamSets Data Collector.