One Wordcloud A Day

I haven't watched the new Batman Vs Superman movie yet. Not sure when I will get to watch it either. But I saw a lot of people either saying great things about the movie or complaining vociferously. It then made sense to see what people are saying on Twitter. Now before you see the wordcloud and sentiment graph, I must make clear that the movie is a big hit setting records. While it registered the most successful opening in the history with more than $100 million collection, the second weekend saw the largest drop ever recorded for a movie with such a massive opening! Boxofficemojo has more details if you are interested: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4173&p=.htm People are clearly talking about Batman much more than Superman! Similarly, we see that Ben Affleck was mentioned quite frequently. Many frequently occurring words are positive - awesome, better, great, loved, amazing, etc. There are a few negative words as well. But the overall sentiment seems positive, w...

All the rage for the last 2 days was about Oscars. I tried to download a few tweets earlier but got some server error several times. Finally it worked yesterday and here is the wordcloud. No surprise there that Leonardo Dicaprio got so much attention on Twitter. This was his 1st Oscars after having nominated six times in the past! Only a few more names pop up with his name in the wordcloud. There is Lady Gaga and then Chris Rock, who was hosting the awards ceremony. Chris Rock opened with a controversial monologue but unfortunately I couldn't locate a clean video. It seems that they have pulled it off different networks. Here is an article that tells you what happened: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/12175247/chris-rock-academy-awards-oscars-jokes-monologue.html

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...

The wait has ended. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is released and this twitter hashtag started trending. I was interested in knowing what people are talking about Star Wars given that many on Twitter are perhaps too young to know Star Wars. I think that a lot of words in the wordcloud are very operations: see, seeing, tonight, watch, like, going, looking, etc. But interestingly there are a few worries such as "spoiler" and "hype". The excitement is less apparent though. There are a few words that indicate people are looking at this with more positive sentiment: excited, amazing, and happy.    The sentiment is surprisingly neutral rather than positive as I would expect. This is not good for Star Wars, is it?  

Today's hashtag was #SalmanVerdict, which is trending in Asia. Salman Khan is a famous Bollywood actor, who is more know for his rash and irresponsible behavior. 13 years ago he killed two people in Mumbai while driving drunk. At least that's what many people believe. His court case went on for years. Key witnesses turned hostile. Finally today the High Court in Mumbai acquitted him. It has caused a lot of outrage but it's overshadowed by the actor's fan base. Therefore, I was curious to see what people are talking about him. I downloaded just above 100 K tweets and here is the wordcloud: So, "Car" is a pretty boring word to appear so frequently! Yes, it was a car accident, but still. It seems that people are talking about his "drunk" driving or that he was drunk at that time. The word "money" shows up as well, which probably indicates that people are either talking about bribes or money given to victims. If you check the wordcloud car...

Captain America: Civil War trailer is trending right now! I decided to use this for the wordcloud today using "Civil War" as the search query. For the wordcloud I deleted the obvious words such as "trailer" and the title of the movie. Here is the wordcloud, which looks quite uninformative to me. I don't know why f-word shows up here although less frequently The sentiment is overly positive. No wonder here. People like this guy and they liked the trailer as well!