Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter

Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael Arnold, Joshua R. Minot, David Rushing Dewhurst, Andrew J. Reagan, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

2021-07-16articleScience Advances45 citationsgold

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Computational and Text Analysis Methods Digital Humanities and Scholarship Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Abstract

-grams can be extended to any temporally evolving corpus. Illustrating the instrument's potential, we present example use cases including social amplification, the sociotechnical dynamics of famous individuals, box office success, and social unrest.

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