Our repo has devcontainers which can be used to quickly spin up a development environment. Before you get started, make sure you have a working version of Docker.
To get started, open up the repo in VSCode, then F1 > Dev Containers: Reopen in Container. Once all the images are downloaded, you are done!
Make sure you have Python 3.8 or later installed, and the necessary extensions for Python and Jupyter notebook. Conda virtual environments are recommended since they contain preinstalled with most of the libraries.
All our raw data in data/ is stored using Git LFS, so they are not downloaded when you git clone. To download them, run the following:
git lfs pullOnce you have the required data files, run 'CleaningData.ipynb' to get modified data which is necessary to run tweetAnalysis ipython notebook