A Study on Herd Behavior Using Sentiment Analysis in Online Social Network

Social media platforms are thriving nowadays, so a huge volume of data is produced. As it includes brief and clear statements, millions of people post their thoughts on microblogging sites every day. This paper represents and analyze the capacity of diverse strategies to volumetric, delicate, and social networks to predict critical opinions from online social networking sites. In the exploration of certain searching for relevant, the thoughts of people play a crucial role. Social media becomes a good outlet since the last decades to share the opinions globally. Sentiment analysis as well as opinion mining is a tool that is used to extract the opinions or thoughts of the common public. An occurrence in one place, be it economic, political, or social, may trigger large-scale chain public reaction across many other sites in an increasingly interconnected world. This study demonstrates the evaluation of sentiment analysis techniques using social media contents and creating the association between subjectivity with herd behavior and clustering coefficient as well as tries to predict the election result (2021 election in West Bengal). This is an implementation of sentiment analysis targeted at estimating the results of an upcoming election by assessing the public's opinion across social media. This paper also has a short discussion section on the usefulness of the idea in other fields.

Analyzing User Activities Using Vector Space Model in Online Social Networks

The increasing popularity of internet, wireless technologies and mobile devices has led to the birth of mass connectivity and online interaction through Online Social Networks (OSNs) and similar environments. OSN reflects a social structure consist of a set of individuals and different types of ties like connections, relationships, interactions etc among them and helps its users to connect with their friends and common interest groups, share views and to pass information. Now days the users choose OSN sites as a most preferred place for sharing their updates, different views, posting photographs and would like to make it available for others for viewing, rating and making comments. The current paper aims to explore and analyze the association between the objects (like photographs, posts etc) and its viewers (friends, acquaintances etc) for a given user and to find activity relationship among them by using the TF-IDF scheme of Vector Space Model. After vectorization the vector data has been presented through a weighted graph with various properties.