The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador
This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged tweets, the study identifies the subject matte...
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okr-10986-226562021-04-23T14:04:10Z The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador Seabold, Skipper Rutherford, Alex De Backer, Olivia Coppola, Andrea INFERENCE DISCUSSION PRESENTATIONS E-MAIL PUBLIC PERCEPTION SEARCH TAXONOMY ABBREVIATIONS SPEAKING INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION TREND MONITORING CONTENTS IMAGE INFORMATION SHARING RESEARCHER CONTENT SUBSIDY HUMAN INTELLIGENCE PRICE TIME PERIOD LANGUAGE COMPUTER CLASSIFYING OPEN ACCESS IDEA COMPLEXITY INSTITUTIONS QUERY TIME PERIODS LINK DATA TRAINING DOCUMENT LABELING TRANSPORT NUMBERS DOMAIN MOBILITY CLUSTERING SITE IDEAS EXPERTS CASES DOCUMENTS TRUE WEB LINKS LEARNING RESEARCH PROCESS PRACTICE CLASSIFICATION MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS LIBRARY SUBSIDIES ARCHIVE TRANSLATING TRANSACTIONS USERS BUS POINT OF SALE WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCH QUERY EXTRACTING DRIVING PUBLIC OPINION POLICIES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS DISCUSSIONS RESULTS METRICS HEURISTICS GPS ELECTRICITY CUSTOM NETWORKS PROCESSES TEXT USER INTERFACE LABELS RESEARCHERS FUEL SHORTAGES LITERATURE SOCIAL SCIENCE DECISION MAKING URL SIGNALS IMAGES CASE MEDIA GENERAL PUBLIC CAR RESULT CONCEPT ACRONYMS UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCES BUSINESSES LOGICAL RULES GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE FUEL INSTITUTION MAIL STANDARD VOCABULARY TAGGING RESEARCH METHODS UNICODE INTERFACE CONCEPTS VARIETY DATABASE TARGET PRICES USES HTML USER This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged tweets, the study identifies the subject matter and sentiment of all tweets during six one-month periods over three years that concern the subsidy reform. The paper shows that such an analysis using Twitter data can provide a useful complement to existing household survey data and even potentially replace survey data if none were available. The finding show that when people tweet about the subsidy, they almost always do so in a negative manner; and there is a decline in discussion of topics about the reform subsidy, which coincides with increase in support for the subsidy as reported elsewhere. Therefore, the study concludes that decreasing discussion of the subsidy reform indicates an increase in support for the reform. In addition, the gas distributor strikes of May 2011 may have contributed to public perception of the reform more than previously acknowledged. This study is used as an opportunity to provide methodological guidance for researchers who wish to undertake similar studies, documenting the steps in the analysis pipeline with detail and noting the challenges inherent in obtaining data, classification, and inference. 2015-09-23T15:51:01Z 2015-09-23T15:51:01Z 2015-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24925779/pulse-public-opinion-using-twitter-data-analyze-public-perception-reform-el-salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22656 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7399 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper El Salvador |
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INFERENCE DISCUSSION PRESENTATIONS PUBLIC PERCEPTION SEARCH TAXONOMY ABBREVIATIONS SPEAKING INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION TREND MONITORING CONTENTS IMAGE INFORMATION SHARING RESEARCHER CONTENT SUBSIDY HUMAN INTELLIGENCE PRICE TIME PERIOD LANGUAGE COMPUTER CLASSIFYING OPEN ACCESS IDEA COMPLEXITY INSTITUTIONS QUERY TIME PERIODS LINK DATA TRAINING DOCUMENT LABELING TRANSPORT NUMBERS DOMAIN MOBILITY CLUSTERING SITE IDEAS EXPERTS CASES DOCUMENTS TRUE WEB LINKS LEARNING RESEARCH PROCESS PRACTICE CLASSIFICATION MACHINE LEARNING INSIGHTS LIBRARY SUBSIDIES ARCHIVE TRANSLATING TRANSACTIONS USERS BUS POINT OF SALE WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCH QUERY EXTRACTING DRIVING PUBLIC OPINION POLICIES PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS DISCUSSIONS RESULTS METRICS HEURISTICS GPS ELECTRICITY CUSTOM NETWORKS PROCESSES TEXT USER INTERFACE LABELS RESEARCHERS FUEL SHORTAGES LITERATURE SOCIAL SCIENCE DECISION MAKING URL SIGNALS IMAGES CASE MEDIA GENERAL PUBLIC CAR RESULT CONCEPT ACRONYMS UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCES BUSINESSES LOGICAL RULES GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE FUEL INSTITUTION STANDARD VOCABULARY TAGGING RESEARCH METHODS UNICODE INTERFACE CONCEPTS VARIETY DATABASE TARGET PRICES USES HTML USER |
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This study uses Twitter data to provide
a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the
2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By
soliciting a small sample of manually tagged tweets, the
study identifies the subject matter and sentiment of all
tweets during six one-month periods over three years that
concern the subsidy reform. The paper shows that such an
analysis using Twitter data can provide a useful complement
to existing household survey data and even potentially
replace survey data if none were available. The finding show
that when people tweet about the subsidy, they almost always
do so in a negative manner; and there is a decline in
discussion of topics about the reform subsidy, which
coincides with increase in support for the subsidy as
reported elsewhere. Therefore, the study concludes that
decreasing discussion of the subsidy reform indicates an
increase in support for the reform. In addition, the gas
distributor strikes of May 2011 may have contributed to
public perception of the reform more than previously
acknowledged. This study is used as an opportunity to
provide methodological guidance for researchers who wish to
undertake similar studies, documenting the steps in the
analysis pipeline with detail and noting the challenges
inherent in obtaining data, classification, and inference. |
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Seabold, Skipper Rutherford, Alex De Backer, Olivia Coppola, Andrea |
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Seabold, Skipper Rutherford, Alex De Backer, Olivia Coppola, Andrea |
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Seabold, Skipper |
| title |
The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador |
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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador |
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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador |
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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador |
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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador |
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pulse of public opinion : using twitter data to analyze public perception of reform in el salvador |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24925779/pulse-public-opinion-using-twitter-data-analyze-public-perception-reform-el-salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22656 |
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