how to get age and gender of tweets
saba76
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There isn't a native RapidMiner operator to retrieve that information. You would have to see whether it is available via the Twitter API and create your own script to get it (assuming Twitter even publishes that information via the API).5
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thanks a lot0
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There isn't a native RapidMiner operator to retrieve that information. You would have to see whether it is available via the Twitter API and create your own script to get it (assuming Twitter even publishes that information via the API).5
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thanks a lot0
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another somewhat sneaky method, if you can get the name of the user, is to use an onomastics engine like NamSor. There's a NamSor extension in the RapidMiner Marketplace.
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@saba76 yes that's how onomastics works. I don't think you need both FN and LN but I would look at the NamSor's site. Elian Carsenat is the owner and he's a guru. Been doing this for years.
Another idea if you're clever and have the time...you could probably create some kind of ML pre-processing model that trains + scores twitter handles that would parse into FN and/or first initial + last name etc... For example, a human will probably guess (even without knowing me), that my twitter handle "@sgenzer" is a FirstinitialLastname combo. Our good friend @Telcontar120 on this community is twitter handle "@BrianTvenstrup" which any human will see as FirstnameLastname. Same with RapidMiner co-founder "@RalfKlinkenberg". Other co-founder Ingo Mierswa's handle is "@ingomierswa" which, I would guess, would fail most ML models. Sorry @IngoRM
But you get the idea.
Hmm interesting challenge I've created...
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