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Why, New York City? Gauging The Quality Of Life Through The Thoughts Of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
Why, New York City? Gauging The Quality Of Life Through The Thoughts Of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As a resource for social data, Twitter’s platform has been used to measure the quality of life through sentiment analysis. This capstone project explores another methodological technique—querying Twitter data around specific keyword terms to determine dominant topics, word patterns, and sentiment leanings in a geographical area. Focusing on New York City and Los Angeles for comparative analysis, the keyword term “why” will be used to build a Python analysis around topic modeling and sentiment analysis. Using this approach, the analysis reveals social and cultural differences, the overall sentiment of tweets, and subjects of interest to tweeters.
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An Exploratory Data Analysis On Covid-19 And Its Effects On Crime In New York City, Lanlie Nguyen
An Exploratory Data Analysis On Covid-19 And Its Effects On Crime In New York City, Lanlie Nguyen
Honors Projects
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected the crime rates present in New York City over the years of 2019 and 2020. There is limited criminal research that investigate the connection to pandemics, and how it can be used to reduce crime rates in similar situations. The goal of this study is to reduce crime rates and provide possible policy implications.
This project analyzes the crime rate trends present before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and compares it to the number of COVID-19 cases. Analysis of the statewide …
Slices Of The Big Apple: A Visual Explanation And Analysis Of The New York City Budget, Joanne Ramadani
Slices Of The Big Apple: A Visual Explanation And Analysis Of The New York City Budget, Joanne Ramadani
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As a component of government, budgets are fundamental not only to improving the quality of a shared society, but also to understanding what our government officials consider to be their priorities. However, most budgets can be difficult to understand, using terms that are not familiar to people who have not studied finance or economics. To that end, Slices of the Big Apple is an interactive, centralized narrative website that uses visualizations at its core in order to: 1) facilitate a holistic understanding of the New York City government budget for NYC residents; and 2) conduct a five-year analysis of Community …