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.

Be aware that this is real data from Twitter and as such there is always a risk that it may contain profanity or other offensive content (in this exercise, and any following exercises that also use real Twitter data).

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.

Take Hint (-30 XP)

Exercise

Load and explore your Twitter data

Instructions