#GeneralElections2019
Problem Statement The course Privacy and Security on Online Social Media has taught us about the growing importance of social media in approximating to a good degree the public sentiments over any trending issues currently. Social media can even be thought as a virtual simulation of the real world itself to a certain extent. Our focus was to tackle one such challenge: General Elections 2019. We wanted to analyse the change in sentiments of people who tweeted about elections in 2014 versus today. We planned on using the tweet text features, along with the account features to build a classifier to classify new tweets into classes (political leanings), and map these results to obtain some sort of opinion polls before the elections. Dataset The dataset used for our experiments were " Twitter and Polls: Analyzing and estimating political orientation of Twitter users in India General Elections 2014 ". Preliminary Analysis After some preliminary tests on ...