Follow what Australians have been saying
Griffith University’s Climate Action big data research project built a custom dashboard to track twitter posts by Australians before, during and after the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2023.
Applying big data analytics and expert analysis, the dashboard has been using key words to analyse Australian twitter feeds in close to real-time since 17 November 2023.
Australian sentiment dashboard
Dashboard user guide
Tweets were analysed through:
Key words
- COP 28
- Net Zero
- 2050 target
- Net zero by 2050
- Climate Emergency
Sentiment
- Positive
- Negative
Emotions
- Trust
- Joy
- Fear
- Surprise
- Anger
- Disgust
- Anticipation
- Sadness
Location
- Where people are tweeting from based on where they opened their Twitter account
Temporal and Spatial Analysis
Heat map: depicts geographic distribution of tweets across Australia based on where Twitter users opened their accounts.
Bar chart: shows top 10 Twitter user locations based on where the account was opened.
Line chart: indicates number of posts by date.
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. The higher the bar, the stronger the emotion.
Semantic Analysis
Frequent words appearing in tweets Illustrates key topics and overall tweet sentiment in Australia.
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 27 Dashboard
See the COP 27 climate sentiment dashboard, tracking tweets and comments posted by Australians before, during and after the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in 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.