Day 2 - Classification of Political US Tweets

Introduction

Context: Presidential Debate 2020

Yes, we are going back in time to the Presidential Debate in the US 2020 - the time of lots of unhappy Tweeting. It’s just too good a dataset and case to let it go…

Data

• Political tweets: https://github.com/SDS-AAU/SDS-master/raw/master/M2/data/pol_tweets.gz from https://github.com/alexlitel/congresstweets We’ve preprocessed a bit to make things easier. 1: Dems. 0: Rep.

• Tweets around the time of the debate in oktober 20 (8000): https://github.com/SDS-AAU/SDS-master/raw/master/M2/data/pres_debate_2020.gz

Both datasets are in JSON format.

Tasks

• Preprocess both datasets for NLP (supervised)
• Start by building a classification model for the congress tweets
• Use a well performing model to classify new data (tweets from the presidential debate)
• Explore the different classes

Schedule for the workshop