ISMB2019 Analysis

Venu Thatikonda

ISMB/ECCB 2019 conference was organized from July 21st - July 25th in Basel, Switzerland.

Data collection

Twitter data for the conference days July 21 - July 25th, 2019 was collected and cleaned on July 25th evening after last keynote.

Data cleaning

I only used the following columns from above data

  • created_at which corresponds to time the tweet was generated
  • screen_name twitter handle name
  • text actual tweet

Frequency of tweets per day

Tweets that contain ML/DL/Single-cell

Identifying the trends of topics in talks

Open positions advertised during the conference

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