Load and explore your Twitter data

Now that you've got your Twitter data sitting locally in a text file, it's time to explore it! This is what you'll do in the next few interactive exercises. In this exercise, you'll read the Twitter data into a list tweets_data.

This exercise is part of the course

Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

Assign the filename 'tweets.txt' to the variable tweets_data_path.
Initialize tweets_data as an empty list to store the tweets in.
Within the for loop initiated by for line in tweets_file:, load each tweet into a variable tweet using json.loads(), then append tweet to tweets_data using the append() method.
Hit submit and check out the keys of the first tweet dictionary printed to the shell.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import package
import json

# String of path to file: tweets_data_path


# Initialize empty list to store tweets: tweets_data


# Open connection to file
tweets_file = open(tweets_data_path, "r")

# Read in tweets and store in list: tweets_data
for line in tweets_file:
    ____
    ____

# Close connection to file
tweets_file.close()

# Print the keys of the first tweet dict
print(tweets_data[0].keys())

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