Numbered Examples

1-1 Using OAuth to access Twitter APIs

1-2 Discovering the trending topics

1-5 Collecting time-series data for trending topics

1-6 Extracting tweet entities

1-8 Searching for tweets by query term

1-11 Searching for trending topics

1-12 Extracting retweet origins

1-14 Creating a graph of retweet relationships

1-15 Visualizing a graph of retweet relationships with Graphviz

1-16 Visualizing a graph of retweet relationships with Protovis

1-17 Filtering tweets using the streaming API

1-18 Making robust Twitter requests

1-19 Fetching tweets one at a time

1-20 Harvesting tweets via timelines

1-21 Creating a tag cloud from tweet entities

1-22 Summarizing link targets

1-23 Harvesting friends and followers

1-25 Performing setwise operations in Python

1-26 Resolving user profile information

1-27 Crawling a friendship graph

1-28 Creating friendship graphs

1-29 Analyzing friendship cliques

1-30 Analyzing the authors of tweets that appear in search results

1-31 Visualizing geodata with a Dorling Cartogram

1-32 Geocoding locations from profiles (or elsewhere)