Twitter Analysis on Coronavirus

Cornell Data Science Freshman Project Thebois: Kaitlyn Chen, Kassie Wang, Jessie Lee

How are people responding to the coronavirus?

Description of Project

Using twitter for the source of our data, we were interested in
- Reactions of people : Main interests, polarity & subjectivity in opinions
- Reactions in each country

Main Questions of Interest

- How polar & subjective are people’s reaction to coronavirus?
- How concerned are people about the economy?
- How are reactions in different countries?
- What are the main issues people are talking about on twitter?
- How accurate were our models in predicting polarity + subjectivity?

Datasets

Dataset(s): -Daily Novel Coronavirus 2019 Dataset (JHU)

Insights/Resources

  • Twitter Coronavirus Data Project
  • Web Scraping Twitter