Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Twitter Data-Mini Project
Search
Abhishek Nandakumar
November 25, 2013
0
79
Twitter Data-Mini Project
Abhishek Nandakumar
November 25, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Abhishek Nandakumar
See All by Abhishek Nandakumar
iPad Companion Apps for TV Shows
xabhishek
0
110
Kickstarter Data Project
xabhishek
0
60
Passenger
xabhishek
0
89
Finding Email Attachments
xabhishek
1
460
FeedClean
xabhishek
0
510
NASA Mobile On-Body Interactions
xabhishek
0
510
Balloon Mapping Rig Setup Photos
xabhishek
0
56
StoryMapper
xabhishek
0
500
Comparative Informatics for Design Thinking
xabhishek
1
630
Featured
See All Featured
RailsConf & Balkan Ruby 2019: The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
eileencodes
139
34k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
524
40k
A better future with KSS
kneath
238
17k
Connecting the Dots Between Site Speed, User Experience & Your Business [WebExpo 2025]
tammyeverts
8
400
Product Roadmaps are Hard
iamctodd
PRO
54
11k
Easily Structure & Communicate Ideas using Wireframe
afnizarnur
194
16k
Designing for Performance
lara
610
69k
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
addyosmani
7
770
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
231
18k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
37
3.4k
How To Stay Up To Date on Web Technology
chriscoyier
790
250k
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
357
30k
Transcript
Data Mini-Project Nitin Jain Pavan Kumar Geoffrey Jacoby Abhishek Nandakumar
None
151.78240 35.45195 68.79268 79.56177
p-value ~ 1.7e−18
ordinary people hollywood stars
“I want”
San Francisco Memphis Things for Christmas Something (describe it) Someone
(to do something) Ice Cream Love Things for Christmas Money Pizza Someone (to do something..) (Some kind of) House
words common to SF + Memphis p-value = 0.127 Difference
insignificant.
all unique words p-value = 3.17e−07 Difference meaningful.
Potential confounds Wants for Christmas. ! Words occurring once. !
Context changes meaning: ! I seriously think I want to hire someone to brush my hair for me after I get out of the shower. DAMN. So many tangles. #lazy ! I want someone to fall in love with the way I laugh and fall in love with my smile.
Follower Count Following Count Listed (count) Tweet count URLs in
100 most recent tweets Gender 118 celebrities
None
Outliers
Barack Obama Arnold Schwarzenegger Al Gore Senator John Mccain Sarah
Palin Hillary Clinton John Boehner Joe Biden Politicians 40,185,454 2,925,511 2,701,171 1,849,471 998,646 945,905 585,267 519,641
Tim O’Reilly Deepak Chopra Guy Kawasaki John C. Maxwell Beth
Kanter Authors 1,736,824 1,694,682 1,395,960 869,970 403,402
Kaka Shaquille O' Neal Lance Armstrong Rubens Barrichello Mark Sanchez
Sports 17,452,018 7,843,305 3,918,367 2,020,439 832,289
None
None
118 → 68 celebrities Linear model found variables significant.
Adjusted R2: 0.5444 ! p-values ! Number of Following 0.00892
Number of Tweets 0.02422 Public List Appearance 2.39e−10)
Margin of error above 10% ! Sampling bias ! Missed
features Time since on Twitter Rise in popularity because of recent event Issues