Analyzing Twitter Data from Popeyes
Tweets about the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze.
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Emoji cloud showing the range of emotions when the sandwich started running out. The full dashboard is interactive and allows the user to click an emoji and see the related tweets below.
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Analyzing the top hashtags used in the campaign and the tweet volume over time and how the change in volume is affected by the different events that took place. In the visualization it shows higher retweet engagement (cyan) using the hashtags when the sandwich is rereleased.
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Sentiment analysis over time using the compound valence in the R vader pacakage. The data shows how the average sentiment shifts from positive to negative over time based on different events such as the initial launch, running out of sandwiches, the BYOB campaign, when the sandwich returned and the fighting that occurred.
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Comparison of direct mentions of Popeyes vs undirected mentions over time. Overall there were more undirected mentions about Popeyes than directed mentions to Popeyes and of those directed mentions the average sentiment was more positive.
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Network analysis showing the centrality of tweets about fights at Popeyes. Nodes with the most outdegree centrality were mostly news and media streaming sites such as YouTube.
Description
This project analyzed Twitter data around the release of the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich craze. There was a range of emotion with the release of the sandwich, from joy about getting the sandwich, anger when they sold out and fear when there was fighting. The data was collected from the Twitter Academic Research API and visualizations were created in Tableau. Different analysis techniques were used such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling and word and emoji clouds to show the change in emotion over time. Analysis of the change in volume of hashtags and direct mentions were studied as well as a regression analysis of retweets to see what factors contributed to how engaged people were with the campaign. Lastly, network analysis was used to show the degree centrality of people tweeting about the fights at Popeyes.
Skills Used
- R
- Python
- Tableau