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Task definition
If you want to create a map of most used emojis in tweets about Australia bushfires, you should go with the following tasks:
- Data collection from Twitter;
- Defining of location for each user (we can use check-ins and location field from user-profile);
- Emoji extraction (we are interested only in emojis those users used in tweets, only these will be counted);
- Visualization (we want to allocate emojis on the map by each country). So, let’s start.
Twitter application
Twitter is very friendly to data collection. You can use its API. To do this, you need to make an application here. Also, you need to have a Twitter account.
If you have Twitter-app, open Details, tab “Keys and tokens,” where you can find needed credentials: