Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Data analysis of Trump on Twitter indicates he writes only the angry tweets

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(Editor's note: This post has been republished from the blog Variance Explained. Visit the original post to see the code used by the author in this analysis.)


I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump's twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data:



When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he's tweeting from his iPhone. When he's insulting a rival, he's usually tweeting from an Android. Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump's own and which are by some handler? Read more...

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