What are people eating (on Twitter)?

The noweats configuration lives in ~/.noweats and consists of a twitter.conf file containing API keys and a filters.conf file containing pruning filters for tweets. See conf/filters.conf for an example.

It is recommended to use noweats in a virtualenv. To install it, run

$ mkvirtualenv noweats
$ workon noweats
$ python setup.py install

This should install everything you need into the noweats virtualenv.

To collect data from Twitter, create your twitter.conf file and then run a command like

$ collect_nyc DATA_DIR

where DATA_DIR is the location where you would like to save Twitter stream data.

To process files into their top food and interesting foods, run

$ process_fil DATA_FILE [DATA_FILE...]

where DATA_FILE are paths to files output by the collect_nyc script.

Note that due to known issues in the Python bz2 library, all files must be compressed using the compress_data script.

All of the libraries supporting the scrips are also usable by importing them. See the code under the noweats package for more information.