Exploring Emotions in Social Media

Cecile Paris, Helen Christensen, Philip Batterham, Bridianne O'Dea

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Abstract

We have seen an explosion of communication on social media in the past few years. In particular, people use Twitter to share information and experiences, express their opinions, and say how they feel. This wealth of data of how people feel and experience various events can provide valuable information to support mental health research. In this paper, we show how we can explore the emotional state of a population by mining the vast amount of available public social media data in real time. The We Feel system is able to capture and process up to 45,000 tweets per minute, and show their emotional content live in an interactive visualisation. The data can be used to explore how people respond to certain events and support mental health research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages54-61
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509000890
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Mar 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event1st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2015 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 28 Oct 201530 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2015

Conference

Conference1st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period28/10/1530/10/15

Keywords

  • Emotions
  • Mental health
  • Social media
  • Twitter

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