Sentiment Analysis Through Tweets For ‘Doubling Farmers’ Income’ In India

Twitter is one the fastest growing online social media where people express their views on various social and political issues. Public opinion and sentiments expressed through these tweets reflect the reactions and views of educated community on the topics of national importance. In the present study, recent tweets for the topics ‘Agriculture’ and ‘Doubling Farmers’Income’ in India have been analyzed and interpreted. These tweets have been extracted from a radius of 1000kms around Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh covering almost whole of India. Sentiment analysis of the tweets on the two topics has been performed for understanding minds of intellectual Indians. Analysis has been done using R software and its associated libraries. Sentiment scores, sparsity, bar plots and word clouds have been obtained for analysis of terms and key words in term document matrices for the Twitter data. Sentiment analysis showed highly positive sentiments for both topics, i.e. ‘Agriculture’ and ‘Doubling Farmers’Income’ followed by considerable negative sentiments.