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+# How to use
+Execute collect.py to scrape tweets and generate the ´ALL-SENATORS-TWEETS.csv´.
+Execute collectSenData.py to scrape senator data and generate ´ALL-SENATORS.csv´.
+All new files will be written to ´data/OUT/´. Necessary data has to be located in ´data/IN/´
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