This project is part of the Advanced Internet Computing course at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in the winter semester 2013.

Install all required dependencies:

• python2
• python2-flask
• python2-oauthlib: https://github.com/idan/oauthlib
• python2-progressbar
• python2-pymongo
• python2-requests-oauthlib: https://github.com/requests/requests-oauthlib
• python2-requests: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
• python2-scikit-learn
• python2-twython: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython

For using stopwords, the nltk-corpus must be installed manually:

• type 'nltk.download()' in the IDLE
• in the prompting window select tab 'Corpora'
• select identifier 'stopwords' in the list and install it
• instruction details, see e.g. http://johnlaudun.org/20130126-nltk-stopwords/

In case you run into errors in requests/requests-oauthlib, try the quick fix in requests/requests-oauthlib#43 (comment).

This project uses the twitter API, and as such some scripts require login credentials. These can be generated using the 'getsillytokens.py' script by using the application key and application secret (you do have those, right?).