One Wordcloud A Day

Yesterday Oscar nominations were announced. You can check the nominations from the official website . I could download close to 150K tweets but fewer than 1/6th were original and rest were retweets. There should be no surprise that the word "best" appears so many times. It must have been used to declare the nominations such as "best film", "best actor", etc. What surprised me the most was that people were not talking much about specific nominations. There were so many generic words - amazing, nominees, nominated, actor, beautiful, etc. However, if you look closely some of the generic words are coming from the movie titles! For example, "mad" is from "Mad Max".  Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for The Revenant and his name in bits "leo", "dicaprio" shows up a few times. His movie name also shows up frequently. Surprisingly "Powerball" showed up a lot meaning that this was piggybacking the popular hashta...

I wanted to share this wordcloud yesterday but for some reason my Twitter download didn't work. So, I got the wordcloud almost 2 days late! The best part of Golden Globes was arguably the monologue by the host Ricky Gervais. If you haven't seen it, I embed it here. Keep it in mind that jokes are NSFW and crass. But Ricky was brilliant (much less offensive than his previous appearances). That's why it's not a surprise that his names popped up so many times in the tweets. Many people won different awards but Lady Gaga, who is an amazing singer, was the winner of the award for best actress in limited series or TV movie. Her acceptance speech is embedded below as well. Turns out Lady Gaga was also super popular among Twitter folks, which is apparent from the wordcloud. Finally, here are the wordcloud and the sentiment graph. The sentiment was overwhelmingly positive, which is a great news for Golden Globe people.