sql query to count twitter comments by month in 2016 - mysql

Question

I want to list the number of Tweets made according to month in 2016. I am new to SQL but have tried different ways to do this. Below is my latest attempt. I keep getting a message that I am not using datelogged properly. Lastly, I am not sure of how to format Total and Tweet_Cnt.
The format of the date in Twitter is as follows: MESSAGE_POSTED_TIME: 2015-08-06 21:48:34. FYI---- Column Name=MESSAGE_POSTED_TIME; Table Name=DTrumpCampaign_Tweets
Select
Year(DATELOGGED),
Sum(Case When Month(DATELOGGED) = 1 Then 1 Else 0 End) Jan,
Sum(Case When Month(DATELOGGED) = 2 Then 1 Else 0 End) Feb,
Sum(Case When Month(DATELOGGED) = 3 Then 1 Else 0 End) Mar
From
DTrumpCampaign_Tweets
Group By
Year(DATELOGGED);
I would like for my table's format to look like this
Month(2016) Tweet_Cnt
Jan 25
Feb 100
Mar 200
total 325
I greatly appreciate your help.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming that you only want data of year 2016 only.
SELECT
(CASE WHEN t.`month` IS NULL THEN 'total'ELSE t.monthName END) AS 'Month(2016)',
t.Tweet_Cnt
FROM
(
SELECT
MONTHNAME(DATELOGGED) AS monthName,
YEAR (DATELOGGED) `year`,
MONTH (DATELOGGED) `month`,
COUNT(*) Tweet_Cnt
FROM DTrumpCampaign_Tweets
WHERE YEAR (DATELOGGED) = '2016'
GROUP BY `year`,`month` WITH ROLLUP
LIMIT 13
) t;
Demo with some sample data
You will get an output structure like below:
| Month(2016) | Tweet_Cnt |
|-------------|-----------|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
| total | 13 |
More:
If you want the month names having only first three letters only then just change the corresponding line in the above query as below:
Change this line : SELECT MONTHNAME(DATELOGGED) AS monthName,
To this: SELECT DATE_FORMAT(DATELOGGED,"%b") AS monthName,
Demo of this modified query

Answer 2

Here is a solution, with a sqlfiddle demo:
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/786acb/5
SELECT
COALESCE(`Month(2016)`, 'Total') AS `Month(2016)`, Tweet_cnt
FROM
(
Select
DATE_FORMAT(datelogged, '%b') AS `Month(2016)`,
COUNT(*) AS Tweet_cnt
From dtrumpcampaign_tweets
WHERE YEAR(datelogged) = '2016'
Group BY `Month(2016)` WITH ROLLUP
) t;
The output is like:
+-------------+-----------+
| Month(2016) | Tweet_cnt |
+-------------+-----------+
| Feb | 1 |
| Jan | 2 |
| Mar | 3 |
| Total | 6 |
+-------------+-----------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)