Big Data Analytics of the Representation of Physical Education in Social Media

Abstract

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. ABSTRACT The purpose of the current study was to understand the representation of physical education (PE) in social media. We used big data analytics to access the data of the representation and to map out the large scale of representation in four major social media platforms. The data were collected by extracting social media posts from January to December 2020. This involved big data analytics by which information has been ranked, categorized, and classified through its machine learning. Data analysis included computational analytics producing data visualization. Results showed three overarching the themes of the representation of PE along with its contributors in social media.