County Tweet Lexical Bank

County level word and topic loading derived from a 10% Twitter sample from 2009-2015.

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Data

Available in both csv format and as a MySQL dump.

1grams

• group_id: County FIPS code
• feat: 1gram
• value: Number of times the 1gram was used by the county
• group_norm: Average number of times the feature was used by the county (value / number of users in county)

Facebook Topics

Facebook topics are available here.

• group_id: County FIPS code
• feat: Topic id
• value: Number of times a word in the topic was used by the county
• group_norm: Relative frequency of topic use by county

Citation

Please cite the following paper if you use this data.

@inproceedings{giorgi2018remarkable,
    title={The Remarkable Benefit of User-Level Aggregation for Lexical-based Population-Level Predictions}, 
    author={Giorgi, Salvatore and Preotiuc-Pietro, Daniel and Buffone, Anneke and Rieman, Daniel and Ungar, Lyle H. and Schwartz, H. Andrew}, 
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, 
    year={2018}
}

License

Licensed under a GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3).