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Created November 8, 2010 19:52
Visualizing Twitter Search Results:
Visualizing Twitter Search Results with Protovis and/or Graphviz is this easy:
$ easy_install twitter # See https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter and http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
$ git clone https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web.git
$ cd Mining-the-Social-Web/python_code
$ python introduction__retweet_visualization.py TeaParty # or whatever you want to search for
Your browser should pop open and display the results as a force directed graph, but also check your console for some useful output.
You can create an image file from the DOT language output with a command like the following: