Sentiment analysis in social events

Purpose: The purpose of this study is going to visualize the public sentiment on expected and unexpected social events. Exploring the relationship between tweets forwarding and sentiment. Design/methodology/approach: This research related to sentiment analysis of social events applied a lexicon-based method. The social events come from Facebook data breach and Ireland vote on abortion event. The study conducted This study focused on how the public sentiment changes over time and the relationship between sentiment and tweet forwarding. Bing lexicon and NRC lexicon are adopted in the analysis. Result: The result of this study is the dominant sentiment trend is consistent with the trend of the number of tweets over time in the Facebook data breach and Ireland vote on abortion. Besides, the sentiment has affected people forward tweets in this research