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How did you analyse them? Most rough or basic approaches result in overwhelmingly neutral or positive outcomes.
by robhawkes 14y ago
How did you analyse them? Most rough or basic approaches result in overwhelmingly neutral or positive outcomes.
- untog 14y agoI tried a sample with some existing 2012 Politics Twitter data: https://code.google.com/p/sasa-tool/ https://code.google.com/p/sasa-tool/ and as you state, even the most negative tended to come out as neutral at best. However, even a basis analysis of the hashtags used seemed to show that most messages were positive. It seems that Twitter as a whole leans somewhat to the left. My original plan had been to create a heatmap (similar to one I made here: http://heatmapdemo.alastair.is/ http://heatmapdemo.alastair.is/), with red and blue 'clouds' to indicate which parts of the country were happy and which were angry as the inauguration went on, but the data just doesn't seem to be out there.