Jedward & Eurovision
A: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of #Eurovision traffic on 14th May 2011
Sentiment Analysis on the Twitter traffic associated with the #eurovision tag on the 14th May 2011.
We looked at the sentiment levels of all the tweets tagged with #eurovision (950,000 tweets) between 8-11.30PM BST (ie, when the final was on ;)
Graph of Sentiment v.s Time
At this time we've only flagged some points on the graph.
- The graph illustrates relative sentiment levels
- The higher up the graph, the more positive (ie, happier) the sentiment or mood.
- Labels across the top of the graph indicate times at which various countries appeared on the show.
- Tweets relating to an event or act can lag the initial appearance by a few minutes and can continue for some time after.
B: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Jedward traffic on 14th May 2011
Sentiment Analysis on the Twitter traffic associated with Jedward on the 14th May 2011.
We had a look at the levels of sentiment of all the tweets (250,000) containing 'Jedward' or related hashtags (@planetjedward jedward #jedwardtowineurovision #letsdothis #votesong19 #quiffswinesc #jedwardtowineurovision2011 #lipstick #votejedwardateurovision #jedwardtowineurovsion) between 8-11.30PM BST (ie, when the final was on ;)
Graph of Sentiment v.s Time
At this time we've only flagged some points on the graph.
- The graph illustrates relative sentiment levels
- The higher up the graph, the more positive (ie, happier) the sentiment or mood.
- Labels across the top of the graph indicate times at which various countries appeared on the show.
- Tweets relating to an event or act can lag the initial appearance by a few minutes and can continue for some time after.
C: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Jedward Twitter traffic on 12th May 2011
Sentiment Analysis on the Twitter traffic associated with Jedward for the 2nd Semi-final on the 12th May 2011.
We had a look at the levels of sentiment of all the tweets with Jedward (@planetjedward jedward #jedwardtowineurovision #letsdothis #votesong19 #quiffswinesc #jedwardtowineurovision2011 #lipstick #votejedwardateurovision #jedwardtowineurovsion) between 8-10PM BST (ie, when the show was on ;)
Graph of Sentiment v.s Time
A good mood is displayed throughout the show, with significant dips around Moldova and highs around Jedward.
D: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of The Eurovision Song Contest 12th May 2011
Sentiment Analysis on the Twitter traffic associated with the #eurovision hashtag
In this graph we look at the entire #eurovision hashtag traffic
Graph of Sentiment v.s Time
A full explanation will be put up shortly but in the meantime:
- The graph illustrates relative sentiment levels
- The higher up the graph, the more positive (ie, happier) the sentiment or mood.
- Labels across the top of the graph indicate times at which various countries appeared on the show, (as determined from the tweet traffic, as opposed to programme schedule).
- Tweets relating to an event or act can lag the initial appearance by a few minutes and can continue for some time after.
- Only a couple of events are marked initially, we may update this later.
- As examples, the shaded bands illustrate periods where the majority of traffic related to the indicated act.
We'll let you make your own conclusions and welcome and encourage comment.
More Notes:
- A proprietary algorithm which we have developed and customised for twitter colloquialisms has been applied to determine the sentiment.
- The sentiment score has compared favourably to human marked sentiment.
- The base traffic stream has been treated as a non-linear time series and filtering and downsampling have been applied.