Date of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Computer Science & Mathematics; College of Arts & Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. Yanxia Jia
Abstract
Given the current ongoing worldwide outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COV-19), the goal of our project is to analyze the impact of the Coronavirus on social media platform Twitter. In this project, we gather data from Twitter based on tweets with hashtags, such as “Coronavirus”,”Covid-19”, etc. Using data science tools, we perform data analysis to gain understanding of the general attitude towards this global health crisis in the social media sphere. We also created visualization to help understand how the crisis develops in various parts of the world.
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Alice; Raughley, Miranda; and Childers, Rushawn, "A Twitter Analysis on the Social Media Storm of CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)" (2020). Capstone Showcase. 1.
https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/showcase/2020/comp_sci_math/1
A Twitter Analysis on the Social Media Storm of CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Given the current ongoing worldwide outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COV-19), the goal of our project is to analyze the impact of the Coronavirus on social media platform Twitter. In this project, we gather data from Twitter based on tweets with hashtags, such as “Coronavirus”,”Covid-19”, etc. Using data science tools, we perform data analysis to gain understanding of the general attitude towards this global health crisis in the social media sphere. We also created visualization to help understand how the crisis develops in various parts of the world.