GitHub repository: shekyu01/Demonetization-in-India-Twitter-Data
Primary language: R
Created: 2017-02-06T11:08:49Z
Description: Context  The demonetization of ₹500 and ₹1000 banknotes was a step taken by the Government of India on 8 November 2016, ceasing the usage of all ₹500 and ₹1000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series as a form of legal tender in India from 9 November 2016.  The announcement was made by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in an unscheduled live televised address to the nation at 20:15 Indian Standard Time (IST) the same day. In the announcement, Modi declared circulation of all ₹500 and ₹1000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series as invalid and announced the issuance of new ₹500 and ₹2000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series in exchange for the old banknotes.  Content  The data contains 6000 most recent tweets on #demonetization. There are 6000 rows(one for each tweet) and 14 columns.  Metadata:  Text (Tweets) favorited favoriteCount replyToSN created truncated replyToSID id replyToUID statusSource screenName retweetCount isRetweet retweeted Acknowledgement  The data was collected using the "twitteR" package in R using the twitter API.  Past Research  I have performed my own analysis on the data. I only did a sentiment analysis and formed a word cloud.