One Wordcloud A Day

Right now #KCHonors is trending. I actually didn't have much idea about what this is so I went to their website and read more. Below is the press release about this event. 2015 Kennedy Center Honors Press Release Accordingly, here is the wordcloud. I didn't realize earlier but @kencen and @cbs were the most commonly used Twitter handles with this hashtag, which is quite obvious. It turns out that the performance by Aretha Franklin was superb and Obama, who attended this event, was also moved. The words "fur" and "coat" appear because she removed her fur coat during the performance. Among the honorees, Cicely Tyson's name appears the most often. I Still Can't Believe My Eyes @fox5dc ! @ArethaFranklin Made POTUS @BarackObama Cry! Loved It! Only Her WOW #KCHonors pic.twitter.com/TtGcfnD0vY — James Padgè (@YourBoiFatz) December 30, 2015 The sentiment is neutral for the most part but there are many positive tweets and only ...

Maybe you don't know the stand up comedian David Spade. But when you will see his picture, maybe you will remember him. Today was a slow day for me on Twitter because all the trending hashtags looked too boring. So there was this minor controversy around David Spade criticizing Obama, which was trending on Twitter and somewhat interesting for me. " David Spade " by dodge challenger1 - Image:David Spade in car.jpg , cropped. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons . This is what David Spade said about Obama: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-spade-obama-thirsty_56800c80e4b014efe0d86e54 Basically, he was criticizing Obama for being too media savvy and doing sort of things that are not presidential Honestly, first I thought that he was trending because he died. I was not the only one though. There were a few more people on Twitter who thought so as well. David Spade trending. Thought he died.💀 — Elle@TeamBlonde (@ElleTeamBlonde) December 28, 201...

Yesterday when I started downloading the tweets, #MUFC was trending. MUFC stands for Manchester United Football Club. The news was that they suffered 4th straight loss in the Premier League . Their manager Louis van Gaal or LVG for short took some decisions that were not popular. You can read up more here . The breaking news is that LVG has been asked to resign by the MUFC board. BREAKING: Louis Van Gaal has been asked to resign by Manchester United's board. #mufc — Dan Moore (@DanMooreBBC) December 27, 2015 At this backdrop, here is the wordcloud. No wonder LVG is right in the center as the most frequently used word with this hashtag! Stoke is the team against which MUFC lost. "Mourinho" is for Jose Mourinho who is tipped to be the next boss of MUFC. But after the loss, Twitter fans started tweeting about this prematurely .   The sentiment was overall positive but comparatively it was more negative than what we have been seeing in the past few days.   ...

Today LeBron James was trending so I used that for the wordcloud. I like basketball but I am not a big fan of LeBron. It turned out that his team Cleveland Cavaliers lost to Golden State Warriors . In the last 4 minutes he tried to turn the game around but it didn't work out. In the wordcloud there are words that confused me. Maybe something about "caught", "trash", "talking"? Steph Curry, who plays for Warriors shows up frequently. So does Kobe although he wasn't playing for either of the teams. But it might be for some other story .   The sentiment was way more positive. This suggests that his fans were tweeting. This sentiment graph also marks a departure from the last few neutral sentiment charts!

This is a very late update but whatever it is worth, I will post it here. As you may recall, Steve Harvey called out the wrong contestant as the winner of Ms Universe. This wordcloud below consists of the tweets after he screwed up. As expected, Steve Harvey is all over the wordcloud. Also, words such as "sorry", "wrong", "omg", "mistake" ," awkward" all appear frequently, reflecting what Twitter was talking about. The sentiment chart is not very informative and mostly neutral.

Earlier today I downloaded around 100K tweets with the trending hashtag #MissUniverse2015. The wordcloud was clean with the winner Ms Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, showing up the most often in the wordcloud. Then I went home and found out that the host Steve Harvey wrongly announced Ms Colombia as the winner and then corrected himself and announced Ms Philippines! So I started the download for another 200K tweets. That's still under way so meanwhile I thought I will give you the first update. There is nothing interesting here to be honest :)   Nothing much to write about the sentiment either. But let's wait for the second update.  

Today's hashtag is for the Democrats debate. This was a 3-way debate between Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O'Malley in Manchester, New Hampshire. I have no idea who the third guy is. It seems that Twitter didn't care either.   The overall sentiment about the debate was mostly neutral.