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Influence Analysis Based On Political Twitter Data, Jace Rose
Influence Analysis Based On Political Twitter Data, Jace Rose
Master's Projects
Studies of online behavior often consider how users interact online, their posting behaviors, what they are tweeting about, and how likely they are to follow other people. The problem is there is that no deeper study on the people that a user has interacted with and how these other users affect them. This study examines if it is possible to draw similar sentiment from users with whom the target user has interacted with. The data collection process gathers data from Twitter users posting to popular political hashtags, which the highest at the time published were #MAGA and #TRUMP, as well …
Predicting How People Vote From How They Tweet, Rao B. Vinnakota
Predicting How People Vote From How They Tweet, Rao B. Vinnakota
Senior Projects Spring 2019
In 2016 Donald Trump stunned the nation and not a single pollster predicted the outcome. For the last few decades, pollsters have relied on phone banking as their main source of information. There is reason to believe that this method does not present the complete picture it once did due to several factors--less landline usage, a younger and more active electorate, and the rise of social media. Social media specifically has grown in prominence and become a forum for political debate. This project quantitatively analyzes political twitter data and leverages machine learning techniques such as Naive-Bayes to model election results. …