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Sentiment Analysis on Hong Kong Protest - Using Twitter data
- 1. Hong Kong Protests Presentedby: Group 9 Abhijit Kulkarni Roshni Agrawal Akanksha Gohil Prasad Joshi Rajat Sharma ABI – Sentimental Analysis
- 2. Hong Kong Protests •It all started with extradition bill • Initial protests were against this bill • Fear of losing rights and freedoms as well as the "high degree of autonomy" atmosphere enjoyed by HK citizens • Causeway Bay Books and Xiao Jianhua disappearances • Then people started protesting for immediate independence from China • China used twitter trolls to ridicule the protests • Hong Kong is protesting since 31st March 2019
- 3. Objective of Analysis •General sentiment of the tweets regarding the protest, in particular, what are these tweets’ stances/opinions towards the central government in China, Hong Kong administration and police force • Popularity of hashtags • Behavior of top users and users in general
- 4. Data Source Twitter: • Twittergenerate a vast amount of data from people around the world on a daily basis on a variety of topics and consequently represent a key source of information for anyone seeking to study 21st century society. • Twitter remains the most popular platform for academic research, as it still provides its data via a number of Application Programming Interfaces (API). • The popularity of using Twitter for social media research, both in academia and in industry, remains high; no other platform has attracted as much attention from academics. • Also, Hong Kong Protests being an international matter, opinions of people across the world are taken into consideration while doing analysis of data acquired through twitter.
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- 6. Analysis Performed • DescriptiveStatistics in Excel, Tableau • Word Cloud in Orange for different sentiments • Sentiment Analysis using orange • Concordance in orange • Heat Map in Orange
- 7. Descriptive Statistics Category Count Totaltweets 2000 Number of unique authors 1488 Maximum number of tweets 24 (By @applehahaa) Maximum number of followers 217927 (of @threadreaderapp) Maximum number of retweets 9955 (for @maychen) Missing contents 0
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- 10. Word CloudEntire DataNeutral NegativePositive
- 11. Sentiment Analysis Total tweets:2000 Tweets with positive sentiments: 217 Tweets with negative sentiments: 1636 Tweets with neutral sentiments: 142 Average overall sentiment: -0.41476
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- 14. Interpretations • Overall aggregatesentiment from the analysis is negative which means negative comments are more. • In this scenario, we can infer that people’s perception is mostly against the passing of extradition bill. And the same is conveyed through protests.
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