Which words are trending in EU affairs? What do MEPs tweet about?
Quote Finder – an app produced by the European Data Journalism Network – helps you answer these and similar questions, and gives you different takes on EU affairs.
You can use the tool to explore and filter MEPs’ tweets and create word clouds of their most frequently used phrases.
You can filter content based on:
- keywords
- hashtags
- political affiliation
- language of the tweet
Quote Finder also has a function you can use to explore texts published by EU institutions, such as press releases. You can then choose from various display options, including time series, to highlight changes in trending topics in the EU.
Quote Finder is based on a dedicated open-source package for the R programming language: the source code is available on GitHub.
The procedure for collecting data and deploying web apps is documented on the Quote Finder website, allowing you to replicate, expand or adapt its web apps for other uses.
Quote Finder is available in several languages, but its filtering interface is in English.