Attitude analysis and corpus analytics of 1M tweets about feminism

Zafarali Ahmed
Jerome Boisvert-Chouinard
Dave Gurnsey
Nancy Lin
Reda Lotfi
David Taylor

Big Data Week Montreal Hackathon

April 26, 2015

Attitude analysis and corpus analytics of 1M tweets about feminism Zafarali Ahmed Jerome Boisvert-Chouinard Dave Gurnsey Nancy Lin Reda Lotfi David Taylor Big Data Week Montreal Hackathon April 26, 2015

Attitude analysis and corpus analytics of 1M tweets about feminism

By David Taylor

Attitude analysis and corpus analytics of 1M tweets about feminism

Using a corpus of 988,000 tweets retrieved from Twitter's Search API from January to April 2015 containing the words "feminism", "feminist" or "feminists", we trained a classifier to label them as pro-feminist, anti-feminist or neither (regardless of sentiment), and determined the most characteristic words used by each group with the log-likelihood keyness method.

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