Monthly Archives: April 2015

UK General Election Day 30 Twitter Analysis

This is the analysis for Wednesday 30th April 2015. There’s two stand out items on the chart today, the first being that #UKIP are in number 3 spot, and the second is the continuing rise of #SNPOUT. The more the … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 29 Twitter Analysis

Welcome to the analysis for Tuesday 28th April 2015. Let’s jump straight in by looking at the hashtag chart: As we enter the last stages of the election, all the parties are making their mark on the chart, with the … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 28 Twitter Analysis

After my little break it’s time to get back on to the analysis for Monday 27th April 2015, starting with the hashtag chart: All the parties (bar the Greens) are represented on the chart today; looks like they are finally … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 22 Twitter Analysis

After yesterday’s detour to look at the party’s manifestos, we return today to looking at the Twitter stream for Tuesday 21st April 2015; starting with the Hashtag Chart: The SNP and Labour continue the trend of topping the chart. The … Continue reading

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2015 General Election Party Manifesto Analysis

Now that all the parties have their manifestos out, let’s have a look and see what a word and trigram frequency analysis shows us. The Conservatives Looking at the most common three word collocations, it’s clear that the main message … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 20 Twitter Analysis

This is the election analysis for Sunday April 19 2015. Let’s get started with the hashtag chart: Sunday mornings in the UK are given over to politics on the main TV channels, and as you can see from the tag … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 19 Twitter Analysis

Hello, let’s kick off our analysis of the election news from Saturday April 18 2015, by taking a look at the Top 10 Hashtag Chart: The chatter over the BBC Debate is starting to recede now, and the SNP tags … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 18 Twitter Analysis

Hello and welcome to an analysis of the election for Friday April 17 2015. Jumping right into the hashtag chart: From the chart we can see that the #BBCDebate is still a popular topic of conversation, consequently #Labour and #SNP … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 17 Twitter Analysis

We’re going to mix things up a little starting from today. I’m going to drop the word chart, as I don’t think it really gives us much information, and I’m going to add two new charts, one Posts Per Hour … Continue reading

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UK General Election Day 16 Twitter Analysis

Hello there, and lets kick off today’s analysis by looking at the Top 10 Word Chart: As you might guess, with the flurry of manifestos that were launched yesterday, (see later)that word leads the chart today. However the rest of … Continue reading

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