README.md

Tutorials

Slack: #tutorials

Project Description: A place for tutorials relevant to D4D projects.

Project Leads:

• @alarcj
• @grichardson

List of Tutorials

External Resources

• External Learning Resources Reference of resources that members of D4D have found useful in learning some of the languages, platforms, libraries, and methods applicable to D4D projects.

AWS

• AWS S3 using boto3 How to interact with S3 bucket from python using boto3 library.

    - helpful tutorial for setting up first IAM user and adding permissions before beginning tutorial above: (https://linuxacademy.com/howtoguides/posts/show/topic/14209-automating-aws-with-python-and-boto3)
  

Twitter

• Intro Collecting Tweets Getting started using the Twitter API for downloading Tweets.
• Twitter Getting Past the 32K Limit How to obtain all the Tweets from a given user.
• Streaming Tweets From Twitter Great example on how to Stream (listen to live events) Tweets.
• Basic Twitter Analysis Simple word frequency analysis and tokenization.
• Interactive Maps with Python's Folium Interactive Maps of Tweets (excuse the sample size for this tutorial).
• Clustering Twitter Clustering a user's followers by using KMeans.
• Building a Graph with Twitter Short tutorial on how to build a Graph of Twitter friends and followers using Networkx.

Tutorials by Project

• Assemble
  • Twitter All of it!
• Internal Displacement
  • Interactive Maps with Python's Folium
• USA Dashboard
  • Interactive Maps with Python's Folium
• Immigration Connect
  • Interactive Maps with Python's Folium

git and GitHub

• If you're new to using git and GitHub, download git and create a GitHub account, then head over to our GitHub playground repo. Follow the instructions in the README to learn how it's done!

Looking for Something?

• If you have some cool ideas for tutorial or want to see a tutorial that is not yet present please feel free to add it to our Wish List

Contributing

• If you want to contribute your own tutorials or have any comments please open up an issue. This way we can avoid duplicates.

• If you you happen to have a cool idea for a tutorial or want to request a tutorial on a given subject/tool please feel free to open up an issue requesting it.