Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic

Joshua Dales; Farhaan Mirza; Amr Adel

doi:10.3233/SHTI210575

Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic

Joshua Dales, Farhaan Mirza, Amr Adel

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Abstract

The Coronavirus pandemic has surprised the world and social media was extremely used to express frustrations and development of the cases found. Social media tools, such as Twitter, show a comparable impact with the number of tweets related to COVID-19 indicating remarkable development in a limited ability to focus time. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Coronavirus on the United States of America (USA) and New Zealand (NZ), and how that is reflected in a sentiment analysis through the examination of American and New Zealand tweets. We have gathered tweets from a March 2020 - August 2020 and used sentiment extraction on the tweets. The major finding of this sentiment extraction is the fact that the overall average sentiment over the 5-month period stayed in a negative range in the USA and NZ. This paper aims to analyze these trends, identify patterns, and determine whether these trends were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or outside sources. One trend that was analyzed was the spike of COVID-19 results in relation to the number of protests occurring in the USA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health
Editors	Bernd Blobel, Mauro Giacomini
Publisher	IOS Press BV
Pages	67-75
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781643682266
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210575
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, pHealth 2021 - Virtual, Online, Italy Duration: 8 Nov 2021 → 10 Nov 2021

Publication series

Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	285
ISSN (Print)	0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8365

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, pHealth 2021
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/11/21 → 10/11/21

Keywords

Coronavirus
COVID-19
Data Request
Sentiment Analysis
Twitter

UN SDGs

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Dales, J., Mirza, F., & Adel, A. (2021). Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic. In B. Blobel, & M. Giacomini (Eds.), pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pp. 67-75). (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 285). IOS Press BV. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210575

Dales, Joshua ; Mirza, Farhaan ; Adel, Amr. / Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic. pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health. editor / Bernd Blobel ; Mauro Giacomini. IOS Press BV, 2021. pp. 67-75 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics).

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Dales, J, Mirza, F & Adel, A 2021, Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic. in B Blobel & M Giacomini (eds), pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 285, IOS Press BV, pp. 67-75, 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, pHealth 2021, Virtual, Online, Italy, 8/11/21. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210575

Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic. / Dales, Joshua; Mirza, Farhaan; Adel, Amr.
pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health. ed. / Bernd Blobel; Mauro Giacomini. IOS Press BV, 2021. p. 67-75 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 285).

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Dales J, Mirza F, Adel A. Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic. In Blobel B, Giacomini M, editors, pHealth 2021 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health. IOS Press BV. 2021. p. 67-75. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics). doi: 10.3233/SHTI210575

Sentiment analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on health and safety mandates during early stages of COVID -19 pandemic

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