The Checklist

In your compciv-2016 Git repository create a subfolder and name it:

     exercises/0015-congress-twitter-profiles

The folder structure will look like this (not including any subfolders such as `tempdata/`:

        compciv-2016
        └── exercises
            └── 0015-congress-twitter-profiles
               ├── a.py
               ├── b.py
               ├── c.py
               ├── d.py
               ├── e.py
               ├── f.py
               ├── g.py
               ├── h.py
               ├── i.py

`a.py`	0.5 points	Download and count the number of Twitter accounts operated by Congressmembers
`b.py`	0.5 points	TK
`c.py`	0.5 points	TK
`d.py`	0.5 points	TK
`e.py`	0.5 points	TK
`f.py`	0.5 points	TK
`g.py`	0.5 points	TK
`h.py`	0.5 points	TK
`i.py`	0.5 points	TK

Background information

Twitter's API documentation for the user profile data can be found here: [](https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/show)

The data file can be found here:

http://stash.compciv.org/congress-twitter/2016-01/congress-twitter-profiles.json

Examples of individual profiles as JSON files:

a. download b.

Find the congressmember with the most followers
Find the congressmember who has the oldest Twitter account
Find the congressmember who has highest average tweets per day since their account started
List the 5 congressmembers with 5 highest averages
find the congress member with the oldest most recent tweet
count number of congressmembers who sent their latest tweet via an iphone
List the devices or programs used by congressmembers to send their most recent tweets, sorted in order of frequency
List every website mentioned in a congressmember's recent tweet, in order of frequency

The Exercises


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/a.py

Download and count the number of Twitter accounts operated by Congressmembers

0.5 points

Make a tempdata subdirectory inside this working directory.
Download the JSON file of Twitter profiles (this may take awhile)
Count the lines and print the number.

The file can be found here:

http://stash.compciv.org/congress-twitter/2016-01/congress-twitter-profiles.json

Expectations

When you run a.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python a.py

The program's output to screen should be:

There are 83556 lines in tempdata/congress-twitter-profiles.json

Some takeaways from this exercise:

Note that the number of lines in the file do not correspond to number of Twitter accounts.


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/b.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run b.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python b.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/c.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run c.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python c.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/d.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run d.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python d.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/e.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run e.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python e.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/f.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run f.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python f.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/g.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run g.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python g.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/h.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run h.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python h.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```


          0015-congress-twitter-profiles/i.py

0.5 points

Expectations

When you run i.py from the command-line:

0015-congress-twitter-profiles $ python i.py

The program's output to screen should be:
```
TK
```

Who in Congress is on Twitter? (DRAFT)

Summary

The Checklist

Background information

The Exercises

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/a.py » Download and count the number of Twitter accounts operated by Congressmembers

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/b.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/c.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/d.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/e.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/f.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/g.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/h.py » TK

0015-congress-twitter-profiles/i.py » TK