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The following images present an analysis of sentiments and emotions for the United States 2020 presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The data used for this analysis is extracted from their respective Twitter accounts, @realdDonaldTrump and @JoeBiden. Both their tweets and retweets are extracted. This data is then sent to the IBM Watson NLP/NLU processing returning scores for sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) and for five emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger). No additional training on the data has been done for this analysis beyond what the IBM Watson NLP/NLU provides out of the box.
SASummary.pngSingle Day Summary
The table and charts in the top half are a summary for a single day expressed as a percent of tweets/RTs that demonstrate the stated sentiment and emotion. For emotions, every tweet/RT has a score for each of the five emotions. The emotion with the highest score is considered the dominant emotion for that tweet/RT. The dominant emotion across all tweets/RTs are then summed and presented in the chart.
Cumulative Summary
The table and charts in the bottom half are a cumulative summary since July 1. Same approach to scoring the emotions as described above is used to determine the dominant emotion.
Daily total Tweets/RTs
Summary of the total number of daily Tweets/RTs for each candidate since July 1.
TrendTweetsRTs.pngTable shows distribution of Tweets & RTs for the candidates as well as number of days each candidate was more active than the other candidate. Looks like Trump tends to ReTweet a lot.
TrendTotalTweets.pngWord Clouds
These word clouds depict by size and color the frequency of words used by each candidate since July 1. Words from all tweets & retweets are included.
Sentiment Trends
These charts summarize the sentiment trends over time (positive or negative).
As can be seen for Joe Biden, the sentiment distribution is fairly evenly spread between positive and negative with the occasional spike.
One item to note for Biden is that his tweets/RTs are trending more negative for the week August 3 to 10.
For Donald Trump, negative sentiments are observed in a higher amount over positive sentiments consistently across the time of observation.
TrendSentimentBiden.pngTrendSentimentTrump.pngEmotion Trends
Trends for the five individual emotions demonstrate what is also observed in the cumulative dominant emotions above. Both candidates score fairly similarly relative to each other across Joy, Sadness, and Anger. Biggest separation is related to Disgust where Trump scores consistently higher than Biden, while Biden demonstrates a slightly higher score/trend for Fear.
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