Twitter Analysis Technical

This is a page about some more technical aspects of an application whose main page is: Twitter Analysis DB.

The Database

The application is designed so that using it does not require writing any SQL ( Structured Query Language ), however, some familiarity with SQL and relational databases may be useful. This is not an introduction to SQL but is a description of some of the ways it has been applied in this application.

Concordance

Commonly abbreviated in the app as concord, it is a table generated from the tweets by extracting each "word" of the tweet. "Word" is in quotes because quite a bit of processing is involved in determining what is a word. The simple way would be to just break the tweets up on blank spaces, but what is actually done is a bit more complicated as described in TBD

Words

This is a table of words taken from common usage and then loaded into a database table "words"