U.S. Social Media and Politics

Social media was one of the most influential digital channels during the U.S. Presidential Election 2016. Social media provided government parties and their candidates with public platforms to share their opinions online, directly connect with supporters and have audiences discuss political issues. One of the data sets I have found represents statistics across multiple topics focusing on U.S. World Leaders and specific groups of voters on social meda. This data set, in the form of visualizations and graphs, provides us with facts and statistics on World Leaders and Votes prescence on social media, Hashtags and Engaement, Trump on twitter, and Fake News. This information was provided by Statista, an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal.

My second data set stems from the first GOP Debate on Twitter, where researchers analyzed if the tweet was relevant, which candidate was mentioned, what subject was mentioned, and then what the sentiment was for a given tweet. This data set can show us which world leaders, users feel more sentiment towards and if it differs between leaders who use social media more often than others.