Data Expedition into the Swiss Twitter Corpus

Data Expeditions are short, collaborative events focusing on finding interesting patterns and insights in a dataset through interdisciplinary teams. This is a report of the Data Expedition into the Swiss Twitter Corpus expedition hosted by SpinningBytes AG at the SwissText 2018 conference. The aim was to research interesting topics related to Switzerland in the Swiss Twitter Corpus1. Two teams with a total of 11 participants were given 140’521 Switzerland-related Tweets with relevant metadata and analyzed topics of their choice during the 4 hour workshop. We explain how the data expedition was organized and discuss some of the results and lessons learned.