This project uses the twitter search API to generate colorful word clouds based on a user-based search query or trending topic. An example is shown here, where the search query was Computer Science.
- You need to have/create a twitter API and insert your key into the script
- Install these python libraries for functionality:
- tweepy - used in authentication and retrieving tweet data
- textblob - word tokenization
- wordcloud - generates wordcloud using 'word':frequency dictionary
- matplotlib - displays word cloud
- pillow Image module - opens image we want to use as mask
- numpy - enables use of image mask
- Ask user if they want to generate multiple word clouds from several queries
- Make this a Web App