Clare Llewellyn

1. Clare Llewellyn4

2. Representation:
On social media you can
be who you like

3. Longitudinal Studies:
When did people talk about the
referendum?

4. What do people actually talk
about on Twitter?
PercentageofTwitter(GardenHose)
0
1.75
3.5
5.25
7
6/2/20 6/10/20 6/18/20 6/26/20 7/4/20 7/12/20 7/20/20 UK-EU Referendum
European Cup
Taylor Swift

5. Campaign Group Followers

6. Fighting Bias: Gathering
Twitter Data
• Longitudinal Study – August 2015
• Use Several Collection Methods
• Hashtags devised by an expert panel
• Extracting from the stream using
automatically extracted key terms
• Collect from users known to be tweeting
about the EU
• Try and define the bias in the set by analyzing
the metadata

7. Are you gathering tweets from the
same people?
Dataset Overlap
Tweets Users

8. Does #brexit mean brexit?

9. Is it possible to predict results?
Sentiment dial of tweet stance
Sentiment dial of tweet stance
accounting for polarity shift in #brexit

10. Clare Llewelln
Clare Llewellyn
C.A.Llewellyn@sms.ed.ac.uk
www.pol.ed.ac.uk/neuropoliticsresearch/