Prediction of Reality TV Competitions using Twitter

by Joe Walsh

View the Report here

Download the LaTeX file here

View the working prototype at RealityTweets.com

Screen shots of the site here

Files on the Amazon EC2 Server

cron job file

Script used to kill the collecting tweets script every hour (killall_php.php)

Script used to collect tweets (get_tweets.php)

Script used to seperate tweets into there relevant tables and create csv files for sentiment analysis (seperate_tweets.php)

Script used to send the csv file to twettersentiment to be tagged (get_sentiment.php)

Files on the web server RealityTweets.com

The code used on the home page to give info about the website and select a competition (index.php)

The code used on the page that allow a user to select all the variables for the prediction (predict4.php)

The code used generate the prediction (prediction.php)

The CSS used to set the loyout and aesthetics for the website (style.css)

Code used to generate a display of all the raw data for analysis purposes

The code used to generate a display of raw prediction data (predict2.php)

Other

Completeted user questionnaires

Spreadsheet of the raw data used for sentiment analysis for figure 3

Spreadsheet of the raw data used for sentiment analysis for figure 4