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Insights from Covid-19 #Vaccine Twitter analytics
Bheema, Sai Teja Kotha, Shiva Kumar
Bheema, Sai Teja
Kotha, Shiva Kumar
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2023-04-14
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Bheema, Sai Teja; Kotha, Shiva Kumar. 2023. Insights from Covid-19 #Vaccine Twitter analytics. -- In Proceedings: 19th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University
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INTRODUCTION: Controversy about vaccines has always been an issue, but nothing like the one that erupted about the Covid-19 vaccine. People took to social media to show their sentiments (pro or against) and share information (accurate and false). Analyzing such sentiments is critical. PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to analyze all the tweets that included the hashtag #vaccine from October 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021. This period surrounds the date the vaccine became available in December 2020. METHODS: We fetched all the tweets using a twitter API and filtered them by querying the data using the hashtag "#vaccine". We then performed sentiment analysis and used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and the K-means methods for text clustering to segregate the tweets by topics (topic modeling). RESULTS: We split the data before and after the vaccine became available in December 2020, and then performed analytics and visualization of the tweets. We also conducted sentiment analysis and topic modeling after removing stop words and noisy tweets to determine optimal number of top words and topics. Our findings identified patterns of sentiments over time and identified the topics that people were discussing over social media. CONCLUSION: Our study sheds light on the sentiments and topics related to the Covid-19 vaccine on social media. By identifying the patterns of sentiments and topics, our study can offer insights for health authorities, policy makers, or health professionals to understand people's concerns and provide customized programs that disseminate accurate information from official sources.
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2nd place award winner in the poster presentations at the 19th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Rhatigan Student Center, Wichita State University, April 14, 2023.
Research completed in the Department of Finance, Real Estate, and Decision Sciences, W. Frank Barton School of Business.
Research completed in the Department of Finance, Real Estate, and Decision Sciences, W. Frank Barton School of Business.
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Wichita State University
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GRASP
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