Extracting mentions

In each sublist of the dataset of tweets, there is an element called "mentions_screen_name" (i.e. Twitter handles). This element contains either NULL if there was no mention in the tweet, or one or more screen names mentioned in the tweet. A way to detect a popular account from a list of tweets is to detect who are the most mentioned users in a specific tweet collection.

We'll first extract a vector of all mentions, and once we've got this new vector, we'll count the number of time each profile is mentioned. To do that, we'll build a new composed function, by combining table() (which counts the number of occurrences of each element in the vector), sort(), and tail().

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Build a function that is the combination of as_vector(), compact(), and flatten().
Create a function that takes two arguments: list and what. This function will run map( list, what ), and pass the result to flatten_to_vector.
Create six_most, a function that combines tail(), sort(), and table().
Run extractor() on rstudioconf, and pass the result to six_most().

Exercise

Extracting mentions

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