Kathleen Yoojin Jeong | Text analysis on twitter of UK MPs

Text analysis on twitter of UK MPs

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To explore the intra-party politics in the United Kingdom, I scraped 132,752 tweets using R from UK Members of Parliament tweets. Two unsupervised learning models were used: wordfish and correspondence analysis. Results indicate that the Labour Party has a larger ideological variations within the party than the Conservatives.