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 # copbird-sna
 
+This project uses pandas - either run `pip install pandas` to install the needed package or run these files in a conda-enviroment.
diff --git a/src/create_dataset.py b/src/create_dataset.py
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+import pandas as pd
+
+tweets_path = "../raw_data/tweets.csv"
+
+tweets = pd.read_csv(tweets_path)
+
+# TODO extract mentions from tweets
+
+# TODO generate cooccurence matrix
+
+# TODO save cooccurence matrix
diff --git a/src/create_id_list.py b/src/create_id_list.py
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+import pandas as pd
+
+tweets_path = "../raw_data/tweets.csv"
+
+tweets = pd.read_csv(tweets_path)
+
+for id in tweets.id:
+    print(id)