US Election 2020 Sentiment Analysis

Jijo James No Comments

Predicting US Presidential Election 2020 Result Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Python

Dataset creation
  • Using twitter API to scrape tweets
  • Copy “API Key”, “API Secret”, “Access Token”, and “Access Token Secret” to use as Oauth keys.
  • Setup Authentication with Twitter using tweepy package.
  • Extracting tweets for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
candidate_name = ['realDonaldTrump','JoeBiden']

  replies_trump = []
  replies_biden = []
  for candidate in candidate_name:
      for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='to:'+candidate, result_type='recent',timeout=999999).items(10000):
          if candidate == "realDonaldTrump":
              replies_trump.append(tweet)

          elif candidate == "JoeBiden":'
              replies_biden.append(tweet)

converting the files into dataframe and to cs

  biden_df = pd.DataFrame()
  trump_df = pd.DataFrame()

  df_names = ['biden_df','trump_df']

  for tweet in replies_trump:
      row = {'user': tweet.user.screen_name, 'text': tweet.text.replace('\n', ' ')}
      trump_df = trump_df.append(row, ignore_index=True)
      trump_df.to_csv(r'data/trump_data.csv')

  for tweet in replies_biden:
      row = {'user': tweet.user.screen_name, 'text': tweet.text.replace('\n', ' ')}
      biden_df = biden_df.append(row, ignore_index=True)
      biden_df.to_csv(r'data/biden_data.csv')
  • generated data is avaliabe in ‘trump_data.csv’ and ‘biden_data.csv’.
  • both the dataset contains to 2 columns and 10000 rows.
    • ‘text’ – this coloumn contains tweets containing ‘@realDonaldTrump’ or ‘@JoeBiden’ respectively.
    • ‘user’ – this coloumn contains the username.

Data Analysis

  • Importing the datasets
  • Sentiment analysis using TextBlob
  • Polarity ranges from -1 to +1 and tells whether the text has negative sentiments or positive sentiments
  • polarity function returns the polarity of each tweet
  def polarity(review):
    return TextBlob(review).sentiment.polarity

    Trump_reviews['polarity'] = Trump_reviews['text'].apply(polarity)
    Biden_reviews['polarity'] = Biden_reviews['text'].apply(polarity)
  • adding the tag of ‘Positive’, ‘Negative’ or ‘Netural’ according to the polarity
  Trump_reviews['Expression'] = np.where(Trump_reviews['polarity']>0,'Positive','Negative')
  Trump_reviews.loc[Trump_reviews.polarity == 0, 'Expression'] = 'Netural'
  Trump_reviews.head()

  Biden_reviews['Expression'] = np.where(Biden_reviews['polarity']>0,'Positive','Negative')
  Biden_reviews.loc[Biden_reviews.polarity == 0, 'Expression'] = 'Netural'
  Biden_reviews.head()
  • Visualizing to find Positive, Negative and Neutral

Droping all neutral data since they do not add value to the analysis

  Trump_reviews.drop((Trump_reviews[Trump_reviews['polarity']==0]).index, inplace=True)
  print(Trump_reviews.shape)
  Biden_reviews.drop((Biden_reviews[Biden_reviews['polarity']==0]).index, inplace=True)
  print(Biden_reviews.shape)
  • After droping the neutral data the I have an uneven dataset to balance out both datasets I make use of ‘balanced_data’ function.
  def balanced_data(reviews,n):
    np.random.seed(10)
    drop = np.random.choice(reviews.index,n,replace=False)
    review_subset = reviews.drop(drop)
    return review_subset

  Trump_subset = balanced_data(Trump_reviews,99)
  print(Trump_subset.shape)

  Biden_subset = balanced_data(Biden_reviews,300)
  print(Biden_subset.shape)
  • After balancing the data we have 4000 rows in each dataset.

Data Visualization

Donald Trump

  • From the below figure, one can easily interpret that polarity ranges from -1 to +1 and a larger number of people have positive reviews because it is mostly concentrated between 0 and 0.5.

  • From below figure of boxplot, one can easily identify most of the polarity is concentrated between -0.25 to 0.50. So, it is basically showing only the concentration of polarity.
  • Analyzing Most Positive and Most Negative replies
    • Note:- As per the insights I have gained by this project. ‘TextBlob sentiment analyzer’ is not efficient enough to detect the scarcastic comments. Since, it works on tokens of sentence and classify accordingly.
  • Word clouds can be useful to find your customer’s pain points in business purposes, I am using it to get insights of public opinion about the presidential candidate and most frequently used keywords by the citizens.

Joe Biden

  • From the below figure, one can easily interpret that polarity ranges from -1 to +1 and a larger number of people have positive reviews because it is mostly concentrated between 0 and 0.5.
  • From below figure of boxplot, one can easily identify most of the polarity is concentrated between -0.25 to 0.50. So, it is basically showing only the concentration of polarity.
  • Analyzing Most Positive and Most Negative replies
    • Note:- As per the insights I have gained by this project. ‘TextBlob sentiment analyzer’ is not efficient enough to detect the scarcastic comments. Since, it works on tokens of sentence and classify accordingly.
  • Word clouds can be useful to find your customer’s pain points in business purposes, I am using it to get insights of public opinion about the presidential candidate and most frequently used keywords by the citizens.

People Sentiment

  • From the below figures, it is very evident that Joe Biden is getting more positive replies as compare to negative reviews.
  • The overall people sentiment is more favouralbe to Joe Biden over Donald Trump.
    • Note:- I am assuming the all the users are unique. Hence, I have note removed the users who commented on both Joe Biden & Donald Trump
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