Twitter sentiment analysis on Indian government project using R.

Abstract

The main motive behind this research paper is to use the power of social media to observe, examine and analyze the opinion regarding recent Indian government project as the opinion of people plays a vital role in formulating the government policies. By getting into the deeper insights on social media, one can easily analyze the behavior of people regarding various issues and policies, which was otherwise impossible using traditional sources. The case study was done on Statue of Unity. Analysis was done on one of the famous social networking sites i.e. Twitter, using R programming language. Twitter API was used to collect the primary data. Tweets were analyzed by using opinion lexicon and Emotion lexicon-based approaches. Opinion Lexicon based approach categorized the sentiment of tweets in three categories, while Emotion Lexicon based approach refined them into eight more categories. The research work done in this paper will help government to understand the emotions of people regarding their policies and will also enrich people to help them understand majority vote of people.