Predictive Analysis on Twitter: Techniques and Applications

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable information it can provide. Over the years, extensive experimentation and analysis for insights have been carried out using Twitter data in various domains such as healthcare, public health, politics, social sciences, and demographics. In this chapter, we discuss techniques, approaches and state-of-the-art applications of predictive analysis of Twitter data. Specifically, we present fine-grained analysis involving aspects such as sentiment, emotion, and the use of domain knowledge in the coarse-grained analysis of Twitter data for making decisions and taking actions, and relate a few success stories

Content analyses of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies (ifrc) based on machine learning techniques through twitter

Intensity of natural disasters has substantially increased; disaster management has gained importance along with this reason. In addition, social media has become an integral part of disaster management. Before, during and after disasters; people use social media and large number of output is obtained through social media activities. In this regard, Twitter is the most popular social media tool as micro blogging. Twitter has also become significant in complex disaster environment for coordinating events. It provides a swift way to collect crowd-sourced information. So, how do humanitarian organizations use Twitter platform? Humanitarian organizations utilize resources and related information while managing disasters. The effective use of social media by humanitarian agencies causes increased peoples’ awareness. The international federation of red cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the most significant humanitarian organization that aims providing assistance to people. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyze IFRC’s activities on Twitter and propose a perspective in the light of theoretical framework. Approximately, 5201 tweets are passed the pre-processing level, some important topics are extracted utilizing word labeling, latent dirichlet allocation (LDA model) and bag of Ngram model and sentiment analysis is applied based on machine learning classification algorithms including Naïve Bayes, support vector machine SVM), decision tree, random forest, neural network and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classifications. According to the classification accuracies, results demonstrate the superiority of support vector machine among other classification algorithms. This study shows us how IFRC uses Twitter and which topics IFRC emphasizes more. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature

Social media mental health analysis framework through applied computational approaches

Studies have shown that mental illness burdens not only public health and productivity but also established market economies throughout the world. However, mental disorders are difficult to diagnose and monitor through traditional methods, which heavily rely on interviews, questionnaires and surveys, resulting in high under-diagnosis and under-treatment rates. The increasing use of online social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, is now a common part of people’s everyday life. The continuous and real-time user-generated content often reflects feelings, opinions, social status and behaviours of individuals, creating an unprecedented wealth of person-specific information. With advances in data science, social media has already been increasingly employed in population health monitoring and more recently mental health applications to understand mental disorders as well as to develop online screening and intervention tools. However, existing research efforts are still in their infancy, primarily aimed at highlighting the potential of employing social media in mental health research. The majority of work is developed on ad hoc datasets and lacks a systematic research pipeline. [Continues.]</div

Rumour Veracity Estimation with Deep Learning for Twitter

Part 4: Security, Privacy, Ethics and MisinformationInternational audienceTwitter has become a fertile ground for rumours as information can propagate to too many people in very short time. Rumours can create panic in public and hence timely detection and blocking of rumour information is urgently required. We proposed and compare machine learning classifiers with a deep learning model using Recurrent Neural Networks for classification of tweets into rumour and non-rumour classes. A total thirteen features based on tweet text and user characteristics were given as input to machine learning classifiers. Deep learning model was trained and tested with textual features and five user characteristic features. The findings indicate that our models perform much better than machine learning based models