Yesterday was the BC Election day. Today I want to see what emojis were tweeted during the election day (May 9th, 2017) to #BCVotes2017.
The R Markdown for this little project is found here.
Workflows
- Connect to Twitter and obtain tweets from specific hashtag
- Tidy tweets
- Count number of emojis
- Visualize plot
Results
- Most people tweeted the “white heavy check mark”
- The “fearful face” was interestingly more popular then the “smiling face with smiling eyes” and the “smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes”
- Same number of people tweeted the “thumbs up sign” and “winking face”
Future work
- Figure out why not all emojis were displayed
- Compare the emojis posted after the election