Analysis of Public Sentiment towards East Java Governor Election 2018 on Twitter using Text Mining

Fajar Darwis Dzikril Hakimi, Ahmad Zainul Hamdi, Nurissaidah Ulinnuha, Ahmad Hanif Asyhar, Yuniar Farida

2018

Abstract

Governor elections were held together in most of Indonesian regions in 2018, including East Java. In pre-implementation of East Java Governor election, there were several public opinions which had positive and negative sentiment on Twitter. Those opinions can be used as parameter to evaluate the strength of each candidate. The purpose of this research is to know the tendency of public opinion about East Java Governor election on Twitter. In this research, there are several steps to do, i.e., crawling data, labelling data, removing data, pre-processing data, building classification system using Naïve Bayes, and applying the system on more Twitter data. The word weighting methods used are TF and TF-IDF. The result shows that TF word weighting method has better performance. This research has two results of system performance for each candidate. Based on data of the first candidate, the result of accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure were respectively 98.99%, 93.44%, 97.78%, and 95.56%. Based on data of the second candidate, the result of accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure were 98.95%, 97.78%, 98.55%, and 98.17% respectively. Based on data from Twitter, East Java citizens had tendency to choose the first candidate

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hakimi F., Hamdi A., Ulinnuha N., Asyhar A. and Farida Y. (2018). Analysis of Public Sentiment towards East Java Governor Election 2018 on Twitter using Text Mining. In Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON, ISBN 978-989-758-414-5, pages 262-267. DOI: 10.5220/0008905900002481

in Bibtex Style

@conference{best icon18,
author={Fajar Darwis Dzikril Hakimi and Ahmad Zainul Hamdi and Nurissaidah Ulinnuha and Ahmad Hanif Asyhar and Yuniar Farida},
title={Analysis of Public Sentiment towards East Java Governor Election 2018 on Twitter using Text Mining},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON,},
year={2018},
pages={262-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008905900002481},
isbn={978-989-758-414-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON,
TI - Analysis of Public Sentiment towards East Java Governor Election 2018 on Twitter using Text Mining
SN - 978-989-758-414-5
AU - Hakimi F.
AU - Hamdi A.
AU - Ulinnuha N.
AU - Asyhar A.
AU - Farida Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 262
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0008905900002481