Analyzing Psychological Concepts on Twitter and the Web
by Ernesto Strazza This post is based on a class project done for the 2013 COINs Seminar What do the Web and Twitter tell us about mental conditions and problems? How are the basic ideas related, and what is their context? What are some key institutions and organizations? The results shows that "self esteem" and "depression" tend to be away from each other. Causes and effects of related mental conditions seem to be closer to "depression" and isolated from "self esteem." With the addition of the concept "drug", the relation between "self esteem" and "depression" becomes stronger and more connected. The second part of the study shows that "fame" increases the influence of the concepts "drug" and "self esteem." Objectives: - Find relations and interaction between psychological concepts and conditions. - Discover how those concepts relate (link) and aggregate on the Web....