A tweet can contain a lot of things, from plain text, mentions, hashtags, links, punctuations to many other things. When you’re working on a data science or machine learning project, you may want to remove these things first before you process the tweets further. I am going to show you the steps needed to be…
Tag: data cleaning
Extracting (or Removing) Mentions and Hashtags in Tweets using Python
One of the most common problem when dealing with Twitter data (such as tweets) is knowing how to extract hashtags and mentions, or in some cases knowing how to remove these hashtags and mentions from a tweet. If you’re like me, who has to deal with data from social media (particularly Twitter) at work a…
