I'd like to know which bible verses were popular on twitter on Valentine's Day - 2013. I've added elasticsearch support to my project habakkuk to store religious tweets for analysis. It turns out to be a collection of love scriptures. Very Nice!
Results
- John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
- 1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us."
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
- John 14:23 "Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them."
- Psalm 37:23 "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way."
- John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
- 1 Corinthians 13:7 "[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
- Philippians 4:13 "I can do all this through him who gives me strength."
- Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Technical Details
To get the data for Valentines day 2013, I execute the following
$ python bible_facet.py -s 2013-02-14 -e 2013-02-15
It shows the raw query json for the Elasticsearch Query DSL. Below that it shows the top 10 bible references. Its basically just a faceted search on the bibleverse field.
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"filter": {
"range": {
"created_at_date": {
"to": "2013-02-15T00:00:00",
"include_upper": false,
"from": "2013-02-14T00:00:00"
}
}
},
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}
},
"facets": {
"bibleverse": {
"terms": {
"field": "bibleverse",
"order": "count",
"size": 10
}
}
},
"size": 0
}
Total bibleverse 1568
john 3:16 85
i_john 4:19 42
i_corinthians 13:4 31
i_corinthians 13:13 24
john 14:23 19
psalm 37:23 18
john 15:13 18
i_corinthians 13:7 18
philippians 4:13 17
romans 5:8 15
Project Details
Please reference the elasticsearch readme in habakkuk for details regarding the query that obtained this data. Special thanks to http://www.biblegateway.com for the NIV Bible text. I should also shout out to openbible.info, his twitter Lent blog is awesome.