Race to Aras 2018, A review of week 2 on Twitter Week 8th to the 14th of October. It’s week three, so let’s up our data game a bit! This week I did of couple of extra things. The most popular tweet of the week The online sentiment feeling towards each candidate The presence of bot accounts (More detail here!) Word…

Week 1st to the 7st of October. It’s week two, the canvassing is in full swing and we’re all already sick of it. Following my work last week, here is a review of the second week of the Race to Aras an Uachtarain. This post will cover, The most popular…

Week 24th to the 30th of September. Although nominations for the Aras where submitted several weeks ago, this is the first week where the race really started. …

As part of my research, I was recently given access to a academic dataset containing the posts and comments of Reddit users who had be identified as having a certain medical diagnoses. For obvious reasons, I won’t mention the dataset, but the purpose of this post is to demonstrate how…

#SolidariTea was a worldwide event held in support for four female lecturers in NUI Galway (Ireland) who have been fighting gender discrimination in their experience at NUI Galway. Supporters of the lecturers were asked to “Raise a cup of coffee or tea and tweet the hashtag #SolidariTea to show support”…

On Thursday evening Micheál Martin’s evening statement in the Dáil sent shock waves through both the Irish government and the general population. …