Twitter user classification tutorial at PyCon France 2016

Setting up:

• Clone this repo using

  git clone https://github.com/dsquareindia/twitter-user-classification.git

• Install virtualenv using

  pip install virtualenv

• Install all requirements in the virtualenv

  cd twitter-user-classification
  virtualenv gensim
  source gensim/bin/activate
  pip install -r REQUIREMENTS.txt
  

• Download pre-trained stanford GloVe vectors from here

• Download nltk data using python -m nltk.downloader corpus

• Unzip pycon_dict_pkl.zip to extract pycon_dict.pkl which is our toy dataset.

• Twitter app authentication is only needed for final function concerning real-time classification