Use Twitter as a real-time data source for resources and needs

[shayantist]

Here's a wild idea that I got from one of the other groups we've been reaching out to: http://covid19-twitter.in/
There's a huge stream of near real-time information being posted on Twitter over critical COVID-19 resources.

The group above has already created a handy link for searching posts based on keywords, but there's still a lot we can do to parse, clean, standardize and map out that data. Granted, there are of course plenty of concerns regarding validity and trust, which we absolutely should address manually with our teams in the field, but it might be a worthwhile shot.

If anyone with some experience with Python and webscraping is interested in this as a cool project, by all means create a quick demo to see if it's not actually that wild of an idea.

Here's a little base @Lakshmi-Jayakumar and I started with: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Jph27b4mJCfrfx-8dCuWRSXHfhewxKDZ?usp=sharing