This page tracks the sentiment of @reply & tweets mentioning an MLAs name. The data is collected every week so graphs of an MLAs sentiment over time can be made.
The amount of positive, negative & neutral sentiments are tracked each week for every MLA on Twitter. View an individual MLAs stats page to view their sentiment graph.
The charts below total the sentimate of a parties MLAs, so we can compare the overal sentimate by party.
Politwitter scans all the tweets mentioning an MLA each week and uses a dictionary of positive and negative words to determine the sentimate of each tweet.
This method can never produce 100% accurate data for every tweet, but can give a general impression.
percentage of positive tweets compared to negative tweets
Party Sentiment Log
all MLAs sentiment stats combined by party.
| party | positive | negative | ratio | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of February 11 | |||||
| albertandp | 44 | 9 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 04 | |||||
| albertandp | 38 | 1 | 38:1 | %97 | |
| albertapc | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of January 28 | |||||
| albertandp | 67 | 17 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 1 | 1 | 1:0 | %50 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of January 21 | |||||
| albertandp | 60 | 4 | 15:1 | %94 | |
| albertaparty | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 5 | 1 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of January 14 | |||||
| albertandp | 47 | 8 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 1 | 0:1 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of January 07 | |||||
| albertandp | 41 | 8 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertaparty | 5 | 0 | 5:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |