Tweet Archives Unleashed Toolkit (twut)
An open-source toolkit for analyzing line-oriented JSON Twitter archives with Apache Spark.
Dependencies
- Java 8 or 11
- Python 3
- Apache Spark
Getting Started
Packages
Spark Shell
$ spark-shell --packages "io.archivesunleashed:twut:0.0.4"
Jars
You can download the latest release files here and include it like so:
Spark Shell
$ spark-shell --jars /path/to/twut-0.0.4-fatjar.jar
PySpark
$ pyspark --py-files /path/to/twut-0.0.4.zip
You will need the PYSPARK_PYTHON and PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON environment variables set.
Documentation! Or, how do I use this?
Once built or downloaded, you can follow the basic set of recipes and tutorials here.
License
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Acknowledgments
This work is primarily supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other financial and in-kind support comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Compute Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science, York University Libraries, Start Smart Labs, and the Faculty of Arts and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the researchers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.