Python Word Cloud
A word cloud is a type of visualization that displays words from a text corpus, such as social media posts, news articles, or survey responses. The words are arranged in a way that emphasizes the most frequently occurring words, with larger words representing words that appear more frequently. In this project, we will be creating a word cloud to analyze COVID-related tweets. Specifically, we will be collecting tweets related to COVID from social media platforms such as Twitter and analyzing them to identify the most frequently occurring words and phrases. By creating a word cloud, we can quickly and easily visualize the most commonly used words in COVID-related tweets. This can help us identify trends and patterns in how people are talking about the virus and its impact. We can also use this information to gain insights into public sentiment about COVID and to track changes in attitudes over time. To create a word cloud, we will use natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract the text from the tweets and clean the data by removing stop words, punctuation, and other irrelevant information. We will then use a tool such as WordCloud or TagCrowd to create the visualization and customize it to make it clear and visually appealing. Overall, this project will provide a valuable perspective on how people are talking about COVID on social media and can help inform public health messaging and policy decisions.
Libraries Used
- Wordcloud
- Pandas
- MatPlotLib
- PIT
- Numpy