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#CES2016

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been trending for the last 2-3 days. So I decided to make a wordcloud for that. If you don't know what is CES then you should go check it out in Las Vegas or on their website.

The wordcloud is interesting. Apple doesn't participate in it and I think Microsoft is out as well. It's a technology exhibition so there is no surprise that "tech" is the most common word. It's followed by "booth" which makes sense because consumer electronics brands are showing off their "new" gadgets. Intel and LogiTech are the two brands that are appearing often. Similarly, Periscope app is getting some love. Periscope is a video streaming app by Twitter in case you don't know. "Drone" is showing up a lot as well.


 
The sentiment overall is very positive. A quick reminder that although I downloaded 100K tweets, I delete all the retweets so that only original tweets are kept. This has reduced the number of tweets I have been using to plot these graphs.


 

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