EdChat Public Tweets

This is a data set of 482,251 public tweets and retweets (Twitter IDs) posted by the #edchat online community of educators who discuss current trends in teaching with technology. The data set was collected via Twitter's Streaming API between Feb 1, 2018 and Apr 4, 2018, and was used as part of the research on developing a learning analytics dashboard for teaching and learning with Twitter. Following Twitter's terms of service, the data set only includes unique identifiers of relevant tweets. To collect the actual tweets that are part of this data set, you will need to use one of the available third party tools such as Hydrator or Twarc (\"hydrate\" function). As part of this release, we are also attaching an enriched version of this data set that contains sentiment and opinion analysis labels that were produced by analyzing each tweet with the help of the NLTK SentimentAnalyzer Python package. *This work was supported in part by eCampusOntario and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.