Updated map with Interactive Location/Tweet Data:
I hope to see the text pertaining to Syria, Syrian Refugees, and other issues surrounding Syria through the text analysis of my hashtag. Unfortunately, my set of tweets is SO large I can only grab from a few dates, but there are a ton of tweets so it should even out how many relative topics I find. I am certain there will be topics pertaining to Trump and America Foreign Policy as well as Immigration Laws too.
Using the Voyant tool, my Hashtag produced 312,000 words, and 17,000 unique words! Also, some recurring destinctive words included Secret, advacing, and PutinAssadCrimes.
After clearing the stopwords from the list, I noticed a lot of relative material! From my initial estimation, the only thing that is missing is Trump! Also, it immediately opened my eyes to news about my hashtag! I thought ‘13,000’ was a random word that might have gotten in there, yet it actually represents 13,000 people unlawfully, and quietly captured and jailed in Syria in early February of 2017. Five obscure words are Mass, Al, State ,Today and Syrians because they are too general, and Syrian is too much like ‘syria,’ an initial stopword.
The data that is revelaed by the words cloud is rather what I expected, as I stated above, the words are pretty much what I figured they would be. Aleppo, Prison, Assad—even trump are all on there after adding more stopwords and messing with the view to prioritize the data that is shown to most accurately describe the #Syria topic.
Above is a screenshot of the Word Cloud my topic yielded!
I think the words that stand out the most are “War,” and “Humanity,” although these are generally broad terms, there are a lot surrounding them. The frequency of the terms means it is a serious problem of humanity, what is Happning to Syrians and in Syria, as well as the rest of the Middle East, the war image is never ending, and this data paints the picture of how bad things have gotten. My topic yields so much data it is hard to keep track of but the themes of war, panic and torture are everlasting.
Terms Frequencies:
Syriansfuture, Posted By. “Empowering Our Communities Under Crisis.” Syrian Students for a Better Future. N.p., 03 Mar. 2017. Web. 03 Mar. 2017.
This article actually yeilded similar words to what my topic did, but since this is an opinionated post, I think it speaks the truth which is unbiased politically from a typical news source. Some interesting words include Damascis, University, war. The words that came up actually pertain to my overall topic because pretty much each word describes a different aspect of life that Syria has been effected in, Education, infrastructure, economy, etc.
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Ian,
Good work with this lab. I think the Syria hashtag is inherently difficult to manage, as was made clear by how many words you had to account for. I thought that your findings of “war” and “humanity” were significant to see, as these two words are opposites in definition but so applicable and closely related within the context of Syria. Syria was actually one of my top 5 most frequent words after I created my list of stop words. I can see in your Word Cloud that ISIS was a relevant term for you as well, however not as substantially as Syria was in my Word Cloud. It seems that these topics may be inherently related, and not so much connected by day-to-day events. One recommendation I would make for you would be to add “Syria” to your list of stop words, because this will allow you to see how each of the other terms play out in relation to each other. By removing “Syria” you’ll have a better understanding on the true frequency of each of the terms that naturally include Syria as a subject since they were scraped from tweets that all had #Syria somewhere in them. Good work on this lab.
Ian,
I found the same issue when it came to picking which dates to choose as I also had so much data. I thought it was interesting that some of your recurring distinctive words were secret, advancing and PutinAssadCrimes. I am curious to know how these words connect to your hashtag. I also thought it was significant that Trump was initially missing from your word cloud as I would think people would tweet about Syria in relation to him. I also thought that it was cool that you were able to find out that “13,000” actually represents people unlawfully captured and jailed in Syria in this past February. I wasn’t even aware that happened. In relation to my hashtag I am surprised that muslimban didn’t show up on your world cloud as Syria is one of the countries that is included in this ban. Looking back at my word cloud I don’t think Syria was included, which I also find interesting because our topics are so relevant to one another. I thought your points about War and Humanity were compelling too, as these terms are the total opposite but relate to what is going on in Syria.