Follow what Australians have been saying
Griffith University’s Climate Action big data research project has built a custom dashboard to track tweets and comments posted by Australians before, during and after the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in 2022.
Applying big data analytics and expert analysis, Prof Bela Stantic and his team developed system and the dashboard to analyse and visualise Australian relevant twitter feeds and comments in close to real-time since 26 September 2022.
Australian sentiment dashboard
Dashboard user guide
All six pages of the dashboard are interactive, and you can apply filters. Tweets and comments were analysed through:
Temporal and Spatial Analysis
Heat map: depicts geographic distribution of relevant tweets across Australia based on where Twitter users opened their accounts. Some of the key terms used for posts collection: COP27, Net Zero, 2050 target, Netzeroby2050, Climate Emergency.
Bar chart: shows top 10 Twitter user locations based on where the account was opened.Line chart: indicates number of posts by date.
Location Analysis
Where people are tweeting from based on where they opened their Twitter account.
Sentiment and Emotion Analysis
Distribution of sentiment polarity on a histogram (top left): shows the distribution of positive and negative sentiment values. The sentiment polarity is recorded on a scale of -1 to +1. Negative sentiment is from -1 to 0, and positive is from 0 to 1. Hover over the figures for further details.
Bar chart: illustrates the strength of the emotions (Trust, Joy, Fear, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Anticipation, Sadness). The higher the bar, the stronger the emotion.
Age Analysis
Deep learning method based on description users provided in their profile predict age ranges (Under 30, 30 -45, 45- 60, and 60+). If user do not have description or account associate with institution Age is assigned as ‘unknown’.
Topic Discussed
Deep learning method trained after human expert annotations predicts topic discussed in twitter post, the following topics were considered: 'Agriculture', 'Bushfire', 'Carbon Farming', 'Carbon price Offsets', 'Clean Renewable Energy', 'Climate Change Denial', 'Climate Change Scepticism', 'Climate Policy', 'Climate Resilience', 'Coastal Erosion', 'Coral Bleaching', 'Drought', 'Ecosystem Collapse', 'Financial Disclosure', 'Flooding', 'Fossil Fuel', 'Hydrogen', 'Indirect Direct Emissions', 'Insurance Coverage', 'Jobs', 'Managed Retreat', 'Mass Wildlife Kills', 'Nature Based Solutions', 'Net Zero Target', 'Others', 'Party Politics', 'Sea Level Rise', 'Species Migration', 'Transportation', 'Water Security'.
See the other Climate Sentiment Dashboards
Climate Sentiment Dashboard
See the Climate Sentiment Dashboard, analysing and visualising relevant Australian Twitter feeds and comments in close to real-time since January 2022.
COP 26 Dashboard
See the COP 26 custom dashboard, tracking more than 53,000 twitter posts by Australians before, during and after the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow in 2021.
COP 28 Dashboard
See the COP 28 climate sentiment dashboard, tracking tweets and comments posted by Australians before, during and after the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2023.