Classifying and Visualizing trends from Food-related Twitter tweets using Machine Learning and Spark

Data pre-processing, classification, and visualizations are included

Some technologies used:

• Python/R
• Apache Spark

Machine Learning Techniques:

• Natural Lanaguage Processing (NLTK)
• Sentiment Analysis
• 10-fold Cross Validation
• Support Vector Machines (SVM)
• Naive Bayes
• Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for Data Mining

Collaborators:

• Andy Wu
• Aaron Leung
• Tanner Litwin