Henry McCarthy

Getting Sentimental: An Analysis of Twin Cities Tweets and Headlines

As a final project for my Intro to Data Science course, I worked with four other students to analyze tweets and news headlines that mention Mayors Melvin Carter and Jacob Frey of St. Paul and Minneapolis, respectively. This was an exciting project that allowed me to expand my data wrangling and visualization skills using RStudio.

Below is the link to our final project submission. I worked primarily on Star Tribune headline wordclouds and barcharts, tf-idf analysis of Star Tribune and Twitter data, mayoral mentions word clouds, and establishing a consistent color scheme and style throughout.

https://hmccarth.github.io/MSP-Mayors/

Here are a few examples from our project:

Style Mayoral Style Guide

Text Questions and Context

tfidf tf-idf analysis (this analysis takes a list of words and determines the prevalence and uniqueness of those words)