In this series of posts (part 1, part 2), I have been showing how to use Python and other data scientist tools to analyze a collection of tweets related to the 2014 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. So far, the investigation has been limited to summary data of the full dataset. The beauty of Twitter is that it occurs in realtime, so we can now peer into the fourth dimension and learn about these tweets as a function of time.| www.ethanrosenthal.com
In my previous post, I wrote about how I collected tweets about the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival during the entirety of the festival. There are a wide range of questions that could be answered by this dataset, like Do people spell worse as they become more intoxicated throughout the night? Does text sentiment decline as people go more days without bathing? Who in the world tweets from a laptop during a music festival?| www.ethanrosenthal.com
It seems like summer music festivals get more and more popular every year. I guess this could be the subject of its own post, but let’s stick with my personal anecdotal evidence for the time being. I remember only a handful of music festivals in the U.S. when I was in high school - Bonnaroo, All Good, 10,000 Lakes, and Coachella. I am sure that there were others, but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as present day.| www.ethanrosenthal.com