Is COVID-19 Partisan? A data viz driven story
Last Updated on July 21, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Alejandra Vlerick
Originally published on Towards AI.
Scottish National Party

What does AI have to say about the pandemic? This political analysis is driven by Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, and Topic Modelling.
Photo by Branimir Balogović on Unsplash
What information is the public receiving about changing restrictions and policies around COVID from their MPs and UK politicians? How politically polarized are opinions around COVID in the UK? These are vital and timely questions to explore, especially as more and more measures are put into place to stimulate local businesses and prevent the spread of the pandemic.
In this project, we use the MPs tweets to shed light on the political sentiment towards… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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