Sentiment Analysis on COVID-19 Twitter Data
Tanmay Vijay, Ayan Chawla, Balan Dhanka, Purnendu Karmakar
Abstract
Corona Virus or COVID-19 first appeared in December, 2019 in Wuhan, China. People tweeted aggressively on twitter at that time. This paper analysed the tweets regarding COVID-19 from November, 2019 to May, 2020 in India and its affect. All tweets are categorized into 3 categories(Positive, Negative and Neutral). Multiple datasets are created State-wise, Month-wise, combined of all states to analyze the people's reactions towards Lockdown in June, 2020 and about everything related to COVID-19. Most people started having Negative tweets but with increasing time people shifted towards positive and neutral comments. In April, 2020 most comments were Positive and about winning against Corona virus.