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Live Blog: #Phase7 #LokSabhaElections2019
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Live Blog: #Phase6 #LokSabhaElections2019
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#LokSabhaElections2019 #NCT #Delhi Political Handles, Popularity
The constituencies in the NCT of Delhi are scheduled to go for elections on May 12th as part of phase six, in this analysis we take a closer look at the constituencies, candidates, their social media handles, etc. There are seven constituencies in Delhi, and 164 candidates will be contesting across these constituencies. 148 (90.25%) of the total candidates are males while 16 (9.75%) of the total candidates are females. We went through all the Affidavits* submitted by the candidates to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to collect each candidate’s demographics and social media details. The table below covers the distribution of social media handles that we were able…
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Live Blog: #Phase5 #LokSabhaElections2019 #SocialMedia
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#Books: Life, Productivity, Biography, and India
Even though I would like to read more, last few months have been productive in terms of reading books compared to the past, here are some excerpts (that are profound and relatable) from interesting books that I finished recently. Life Once in a while I look at the books suggested by Bill Gates, in one of his list, there was “Life Is What You Make It” by Peter Buffett. I have read / seen a lot of videos about Warren Buffett (more on this in future blog); I went and checked their relationship to find Peter was Warren’s son. I read some reviews of the book and then decided to…
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Live Blog: #Phase4 #LokSabhaElections2019 #SocialMedia
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Live Blog: #Phase3 #LokSabhaElections2019 #SocialMedia
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#LokSabhaElections2019 Phase 1 vs Phase 2
Phase 1 Phase 2 Total number of tweets (original, RTs, quotes) 235,833 280,256 Retweets 181,681 228,588 Quotes 8,697 6,296 Original tweet 45,455 45,372 Hashtags 123 91 Unique users who posted the tweets 99,794 84,659 Top 5 languages used in the post (derived the language from the Twitter JSON) English (140,163) Hindi (66,980) Telugu (2,899) Tamil (1,780) Marathi (1,510) English (134,325) Hindi (69,489) Tamil (40,903) Oriya (3,809) Marathi (2,752) Top 5 devices used to do the posts Twitter for Android (155,805) Twitter for iPhone (31,251) Twitter Web Client (22,930) Twitter Web App (16,871) Twitter for iPad (2,623) Twitter for Android (207,830) Twitter Web Client (24,847) Twitter for iPhone (22,312) Twitter Web…
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Live Blog: #Phase2 #LokSabhaElections2019 #SocialMedia
We will start blogging here starting 0630hrs IST on April 18.
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Phase 1 #LokSabhaElections2019 Social Media Round-up
Today the first of the seven phases of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 went underway in India; we had 91 constituencies spread across 20 states that went for polling. 14.21 crore Indians are expected to have casted their vote today. We collected Twitter data using 123 hashtags, and collected over 2 lakh tweets from 0300hrs until 1900hrs (stay tuned, we will make these data public soon). The cumulative distribution graph of the Tweets posted over the duration of the data collection with the top 5 hashtags can be seen below. The same graph, but depicting the Tweets posted with the top 5 mentions can be seen below. Further, we share the…