John Lewis Twitter Dataset

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This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for several Twitter search queries that were collected following the death on July 17, 2020, of American politician and civil-rights leader John Lewis, who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 6,870,881 Tweets and 42,055 media files make up the combined dataset.

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8 files: 6,870,881 tweets

Creation Information

Phillips, Mark Edward 2020-07-10/2020-08-10.

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This dataset is part of the collection entitled: UNT Data Repository and was provided by the UNT Libraries to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 163 times. More information about this dataset can be viewed below.

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Description

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for several Twitter search queries that were collected following the death on July 17, 2020, of American politician and civil-rights leader John Lewis, who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 6,870,881 Tweets and 42,055 media files make up the combined dataset.

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8 files: 6,870,881 tweets

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  • Twitter

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  • 2020-07-10/2020-08-10

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  • Aug. 17, 2020, 10:11 p.m.

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Phillips, Mark Edward. John Lewis Twitter Dataset, dataset, 2020-07-10/2020-08-10; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1706011/: accessed October 9, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .

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