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Which Areas Of London Are Positive?

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Which areas of London are Positive? - New A Spatio –Temporal study of Positive Word use in tweets Vidyaa Shyam, MSc Data Science, City University, August 2016 Abstract—This study analyses the positive word usage in social media tweets and investigate if the tweets originate from areas where the people are more happy and satisfied. It aims to find the distribution of these tweets in both space and time in order to uncover recurrent themes & abnormal behavior. This is achieved by analysing a large spatio-temporal dataset of London tweets using scatter plots, frequency graphs, linked interactive visualisation and computional methods. It makes use of traditional spatio-temporal analysis methods and clustering to group data by similarity. It compares the pattern against a survey to find any themes. Index Terms—twitter, tweets, spatio-temporal, visual analytics, Happiness score, positive words INTRODUCTION Twitter is an online social media platform that allows people to create and share information and messages. Currently there are 310 million active twitter users with 1 billion unique visitors every month [1]. Each information posted is a tweet which has a maximum length of 140 characters. According to internet live stats more than 500 million tweets are posted every day worldwide. This vast source of human generated data is being used for various applications such as Traffic analysis and management, Disaster analysis and recovery, Urban development, spread of diseases, event

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