Maryam Mahdikhani
College of Charleston, USA
Title: Publics opinion about Covid-19 and vaccination on twitter platform
Biography
Biography: Maryam Mahdikhani
Abstract
The study is motivated by the tweets on Covid-19 in Twitter platform from March 2019. More than 1 million tweets related to Covid-19 pandemic that were written in English were analyzed across the development of pandemic and the vaccination phase. In this study, we aimed to evaluate public opinion on vaccination and their general emotions toward the new normal by analyzing the tweet’s content. We applied non-supervised machine learning algorithm to identify the most important topics related to vaccination on Covid-19. The features related to the documents then extracted and used to evaluate and classified the main features to predict the public opinion on vaccinations.