Sentiment Analysis on Kerala Floods

Abstract

In twenty-first century, Twitter has been a very influential social media platform, be it in election or gathering aids for a disaster. In this work, we propose to study about the effect of natural calamities like the recent Kerala flood, their effect on the people and reactions of people from different stratus of society. The direction of our research will be towards sentimental analysis using RStudio and the Twitter app. This research highlights the reactions of people on a public platform during the calamity. Word cloud and other data visualization techniques are used for our study. The research also highlights on how the government reacts and how aid is provided in the dire time of need. We predict that our research will be useful to human society as it showcases a lot about human behaviour, its goodness and shortcomings. The paper also throws light on the Hurricane Michael calamity and gives a comparative study on relations like the differences of opinion among the people as well as their similarities during and after a calamity.