Dr. Li has been collecting covid-19 tweets since March 2020 and currently has about 1.2 billion tweets. She is still collecting the tweets and expects to have more in the future. This project focuses on the understanding of the impact of covid-19 pandemic through social media discussion on Twitter. The following topics will be explored: 1). What are the top topics discussed regarding covid-19? How has the discussion of the topics changed over time? 2). What is sentiment/emotion of the topic by time, location, and gender? and 3). How to identify misinformation/fake news about covid-19.
The student will work on this project from start to finish using various data analytic methodology including data exploration, topic modelling, natural language processing and machine learning.
Dr. Li has been collecting covid-19 tweets since March 2020 and currently has about 1.2 billion tweets. She is still collecting the tweets and expects to have more in the future. This project focuses on the understanding of the impact of covid-19 pandemic through social media discussion on Twitter. The following topics will be explored: 1). What are the top topics discussed regarding covid-19? How has the discussion of the topics changed over time? 2). What is sentiment/emotion of the topic by time, location, and gender? and 3). How to identify misinformation/fake news about covid-19.
The student will work on this project from start to finish using various data analytic methodology including data exploration, topic modelling, natural language processing and machine learning.