We’re very grateful to be shortlisted as a finalist in the 2021 MRS Award, for our work on Tracking the #Covid Conversation!
We’ve been tracking the #Covid conversation since Jan 2020. Gathering 200 tweets every 5mins, for free, via Twitter’s API. That’s nearly 25 million lines of unstructured text (tweets). This work uses automated techniques, some new to MR, to provide a ‘forest-eye view’ of our Big Qual database. We apply Syuzhet Sentiment scores, the NRC Emotion Lexicon, Machine Learning tags, and track conversation sub-topics. Data into existing MR tools, analysing and tabulating in a way only MR tools can! Outputs were connected to visualisations in Tableau and PPTX.
The project is live and an interactive visualisation is hosted on Tableau Public.
