Sentiment characterization of an urban environment via twitter

Abstract

We propose a statistical study of sentiment produced in an urban environment by collecting tweets submitted in a certain timeframe. Each tweet was processed using our own sentiment classifier and assigned either a positive or a negative label. By calculating the average mood, we were able to run a Mann-Withney's U test to evaluate differences in the calculated mood per day of week. We found that all days of the week had significantly different medians. We also found positive correlations between Mondays and the rest of the week. © Springer International Publishing 2013.