The race to the 2016 presidential election is going strong, there is a lot of talk and the general public opinion is up for grabs. The data for the endeavor below is being pulled from the Twitter Streaming API and I have scheduled new data to be pulled every 6 hours as we reach closer to the election day. The code runs periodically on a DigitalOcean cloud server running Ubuntu 16.04.1x64 and Python 3.5.

The dataset at the time this article was published comprised of 16,232 tweets about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Even though the code walkthrough and the tables are snapshot in time, the visualisations will keep updating automatically as we keep getting new tweets. Watch this space!

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