Election analysis in Colombia and Venezuela 2015 through sentiment analysis and Twitter

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the accounts of the main candidates in the regional elections on October 25, 2015 in Colombia (Bogotá, Medellin and Cali) and the official hashtags of the two main parties for parliamentary elections on December 6, 2015 in Venezuela (PSUV and MUD) in order to determine the positive or negative trends and compare them with the results of the respective elections. To develop the analysis, we resorted to the technique of sentiment analysis own of data mining and the use of descriptive statistics, concluding that sentiment analysis for estimating trends requires processes to monitor retweets, if you want acceptable results.

Las asociaciones de enfermedades raras: Estructura de sus redes e identificación de los líderes de opinión mediante la técnica del análisis de redes sociales

“…En el caso que nos ocupa, desde su aparición en 2006 la plataforma de microblogging creada por Jack Dorsey "ha proporcionado un rico conjunto de datos para los investigadores, lo que ha llevado a la publicación de más de mil artículos académicos" (Wiliams et al, 2012: 384). En este sentido, los estudios más recientes sobre Twitter se centran en el análisis de sentimientos (Salinas et al, 2017;Zambrano et al, 2016); la difusión de información en diversos acontecimientos (Lee et al, 2015;Shin et al, 2016;Groshek y Tandoc, 2017), el estudio de los hashtag (Zappavigna, 2015;Fink et al, 2016) o el uso de la plataforma por diferentes colectivos u organizaciones (Einwiller y Steilen, 2015;Meijer y Torenvlied, 2016;Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2016, Hanusch y Bruns, 2017, entre otros aspectos.…”

Colombian political leaders on Twitter during the Covid‐19 pandemic

“…In this country, the use of Twitter has already been studied in the context of the peace process (Barreto‐Galeano et al, 2019; Barrios et al, 2019; Cortés & Jurado, 2018; Fabra‐Mata & Mygind, 2019; Quintero Jurado & Marín Cortés, 2018). Its use during the election campaign has also been examined (López Londoño, 2018; Ordoñez Salinas et al, 2016; Prada Espinel & Romero Rodríguez, 2018; Ruano et al, 2018), and attention has been focused on the use of Twitter in general from the point of view of users or influencers (Durán‐Vaca & Ballesteros‐Ricaurte, 2020; Hernández Rodríguez, 2017; Hopke et al, 2016; Hung & Calderón, 2011). Yet, the use of Twitter in Colombia has not been studied in the context of a crisis.…”