/BlackLivesMatter

NLP Analysis of tweets about the murder of black people, which gave rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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BlackLivesMatter

Capstone Project (Fall 2019). M.S. in Data Science program at Columbia University.

Overview

NLP Analysis of tweets about different murders of black people, which would later give rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Reports

  • Final Poster: Overview, Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, LIWC, Conclusions and Acknowledgments.
  • First progress report: Problem definition, Data wrangling/storage/cleaning, and Exploratory data analysis.
  • Second progress report: Topic modeling, Sentiment analysis, and first steps of Image Analysis.

Authors

  • Andrea Navarrete Rivera
  • Jose Luis Lopez Torres
  • Omar Pardo Gomez
  • Shadi Fadaee
  • Shimeng Feng

Mentors

  • Prof. Colin W. Leach
  • Prof. Courtney D. Cogburn

Facilitator

  • Prof. Sining Chen