Twitter Data for Predicting Election Results: Insights from Emotion Classification
Satish Srinivasan, Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Colin J. Neill, Tianhai Zu · IEEE Technology and Society Magazine · 2019
The advent of social media and microblogging sites has paved the way for individuals and communities to freely express their opinions, feelings, and thoughts on a variety of topics in the form of short and limited size texts such as tweets. These tweets can hold a wealth of information on how individuals communicate their thoughts, emotions (happiness, anxiety, depression, etc.) and feelings within their social network [1].