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By Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Renski, Cara Foster-Karim, Andrew Wiley, Dibyendu Das

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ISBN-13: 9781137594907

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This booklet analyses new software program instruments and social media info that may be used to discover the attitudes of individuals in city areas. It reviews at the findings of a number of learn initiatives that experience have experimented with utilizing microblogging info at the side of different quantitative and qualitative tools, together with content material research and complex multivariate statistics.
Applied researchers, planners and coverage makers have just recently began to discover the possibility of great info to aid comprehend social attitudes and to in all likelihood tell neighborhood coverage and improvement judgements. This e-book offers an unique research into how Twitter can be utilized to explain the city adventure and people's notion of position, in addition to delivering major implications for public coverage. it will likely be of serious curiosity to researchers in human geography, social media, cultural experiences and public policy.

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The Urban Attitudes program then searched the data set of collected tweets and matched words from the dictionary with words in the tweets. B. HOLLANDER ET AL. Fig. 1 Fall River with latitude and longitude with the number of times each positive or negative word appears, which was then multiplied by each word’s sentiment score to produce an overall sentiment score for each data set. In order to compare English and Portuguese language sentiment on the same set of data, the program was run two different times, one with each dictionary, and the final scores were recorded.

Accessed 6 Nov 2014. United States Census Bureau (2014a). Fall River (city) State and County QuickFacts. html. Accessed 3 Dec 2014. United States Census Bureau (2014b). New Bedford (city) State and County QuickFacts. html. Accessed 6 Nov 2014. United States Census Bureau (2014c). Selected characteristics of the native and foreign born populations, 2008–2012. American Community Survey 5-year estimate. United States Census Bureau (2015a). Cambridge (city) State and County QuickFacts. html. Accessed 11 Mar 2015.

2011; Ngoc and Yoo 2014). B. HOLLANDER ET AL. Based on discussions with IBM officials, we feel comfortable that the Modeler dictionary likely bears some resemblance to the AFINN dictionary, though the exact parameters of the Modeler product are proprietary. For additional validation, we also ran the Twitter messages through the AFINN dictionary using the Urban Attitudes software, with its new sentiment analysis module. Next, we sought to better explore the way in which the Twitter messages engaged with the topics of urban policy.

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