Visualizing 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: A Twitter Point of View

Ahmad Hamim Thohari, Muhammad Riza Alifi, Hashri Hayati, Yansyah Saputra Wijaya, Yohanes Perdana Putra

2020

Abstract

Social media is now one of the centres of human activity, especially for the young generation. It has big impact on their lives, including political preference. The 2016 U.S. Presidential election was considered very impactful for the global economy and politics. Mass media and social media conversations are focused on the topic. We collected more than 3.7 million tweets related to the 2016 U.S. election 90 days before the election day, until 7 days after the election day. We visualized the data to see the sentiment, the number of weekly tweets from U.S. presidential candidates, and the words that most people use to describe the candidates. The evaluation result shows that the visualization provides new insight and knowledge for readers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Thohari A., Alifi M., Hayati H., Wijaya Y. and Putra Y. (2020). Visualizing 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: A Twitter Point of View. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Applied Engineering - Volume 1: ICAE, ISBN 978-989-758-520-3, pages 34-39. DOI: 10.5220/0010351300340039

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icae20,
author={Ahmad Hamim Thohari and Muhammad Riza Alifi and Hashri Hayati and Yansyah Saputra Wijaya and Yohanes Perdana Putra},
title={Visualizing 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: A Twitter Point of View},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Applied Engineering - Volume 1: ICAE,},
year={2020},
pages={34-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010351300340039},
isbn={978-989-758-520-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Applied Engineering - Volume 1: ICAE,
TI - Visualizing 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: A Twitter Point of View
SN - 978-989-758-520-3
AU - Thohari A.
AU - Alifi M.
AU - Hayati H.
AU - Wijaya Y.
AU - Putra Y.
PY - 2020
SP - 34
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0010351300340039