The term you should Google on is "Bayesian Analysis", which is basically a fancy term assigned to the task of figuring out the probability of event X when you know that a related event Y took place. If you set up your DB correctly, you can use normal SQL to perform ad hoc Bayesian analysis of Twitter data, but it takes some work to set it all up well.
For what you describe, it seems you would be able to get the stats you want by: - Collecting tweets mentioning "Term A" - Count # of that population which mentions "Term B", divide by total number of tweets mentioning "Term A", multiply by 100 If you need to be able to perform ad hoc queries, then you need to cache the stream of all tweets you might be interested in (using the firehose, or Streaming API), indexing it on all terms you might possibly be interested in. Brian Maso On May 10, 9:06 am, Stephen Corby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey There, > > My first post, so go easy on me! > > I do social media strategy and monitoring freelance work, so I've > recently dipped my toes into programming with Python and the Twitter > API to build some simple applications for clients to perform some > basic custom functions & queries without having to dish out tons of > money for some of the expensive social media monitoring tools out > there. > > Gotta say, I'm loving this so far and I'm able to build little one-off > applications for clients. Anyways, I have a client that is interesting > in figuring out the following: > > Of twitter users who mention "Term A", what are the additional terms > that they frequently mention. Sort of like eCommerce systems that show > "users who bought A, also frequently purchased B, C and D". > > the output I'm hoping for is something along these lines: Of users who > mentioned apples, 50% mentioned oranges, 25% mentioned lemons, etc... > > I know I'll eventually have to write some code to filter out certain > words that are irrelevant, but just trying to figure out the framework > of getting the right data from the API right now. > > This has reached the limit of my understanding of the twitter API thus > far, and just want to see if anyone knew if this is possible. No need > to explain fully, but anything to point me in the right direction > would be greatly appreciated-- I'm sure I can eventually figure it out > (with enough time), but wanted to make sure I wasn't wasting my time > trying to do something that is beyond the capabilities of the API. > > Much appreciated! > > Steve -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
