
How To: Collect Twitter Data with IFTTT
Prior to the 2016 Tableau Conference I thought it would be fun to collect Twitter data around the conference hashtag, #Data16, in order to visualize the amount and type of social engagement that the conference would create. You can see these dashboards here (#Data16) and here (Wrap-up: #Data16). The most important question that came out of that exercise was "how do you collect Twitter data". There are a number of approaches you can take including using web data connectors a t