Too Long; Didn't Read
NBC News has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweets-n844731" target="_blank">publicly released a database of deleted Tweets</a> from their investigation into how Russian Twitter Trolls may have influenced the 2016 US election. You can read about the results of NBC’s analysis in their stories <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/russian-trolls-pushed-graphic-racist-tweets-american-voters-n823001" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/russian-trolls-went-attack-during-key-election-moments-n827176" target="_blank">here</a>, but the focus of this post will be on <strong>how you can explore the data on your own, using open source data analysis tools. </strong>We’ll show how to get started with the data and hopefully inspire you to dig into the data yourself.