EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK PREDICTION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)Vol 10, No 4, August 2018.
DOI: 10.5121/ijcsit.2018.10405 49
EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK PREDICTION USING
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Nimai Chand Das Adhikari, Arpana Alka, Vamshi Kumar Kurva, Suhas S, Hitesh
Nayak, Kumar Rishav, Ashish Kumar Nayak, Sankalp Kumar Nayak, Vaisakh
Shaj, Karthikeyan
Analytic Labs Research Group
ABSTRACT
Intelligent Models for predicting diseases whether building a model to help the doctor or even preventing
its spread in an area globally, is increasing day by day. Here we present a noble approach to predict the
disease prone area using the power of Text Analysis and Machine Learning. Epidemic Search model using
the power of the social network data analysis and then using this data to provide a probability score of the
spread and to analyse the areas whether going to suffer from any epidemic spread-out, is the main focus of
this work. We have tried to analyse and showcase how the model with different kinds of pre-processing and
algorithms predict the output. We have used the combination of words-n grams, word embeddings and TF-
IDF with different data mining and deep learning algorithms like SVM, Naïve Bayes and RNN-LSTM.
Naïve Bayes with TF-IDF performed better in comparison to others.
KEYWORDS
Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Text Analysis, Support Vector Machines, LSTM, Naive Bayes,
Text Blob, Tweet Sentiment Analysis
1. INTRODUCTION
The power of predictive modelling is gaining the importance in this ever-growing research areas.
Researchers are taking the advantage of the power of analytics to analyse the data and create a
relation out of it. Text Analysis with the twitter data is one of the most important area of focus for
all the researchers. One of the text analysis problem is the sentiment analysis. It has been a useful
tool for analysing array of problems that are related to human computer interaction. This can be
extended to the fields of sociology, advertising, healthcare [15] and marketing, and thus
ultimately to the area of social media. Sentiment could be described as subjective nature of an
individual, which relates to the “private state” of an individual. Private state could be described as
something which cannot be classified either as an objective observation or for verification.
Sentiment analysis is an important field of research that has been closely associated with natural
language processing, computational linguistics and text mining, which is used during sentiment
analysis to identify the information and extract the same. The extracted information is quantified,
then affective states are studied along with the subjective information. It could be said that
sentiment analysis aims to ascertain the attitude of the individual, from whom the information is
generated, with respect to the contextual polarity of the content which is being analysed [1].
Sentiment analysis is also referred to as “subjective analysis” or “opinion mining”, along with
traces of connectivity to affective computing. Affective computing refers to the recognition of
emotions by computers (Picard, 2000).
1.1 Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis usually studies those elements which are subjective in nature. These elements
are the words, phrases, or on some occasions it might be the sentences. This shows that
sentiments exist in the form of small linguistic units. Through sentiment analysis, one can
ascertain the actual intent of the author. Hence, this could be described as a phenomenon which is

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capable of detecting the sentiments from a given content automatically. Indeed, the sentiment
analysis has been a boon for the organizations, because through opinion mining organizations are
capable of making better decisions than before. In this case, an organization can develop its
strategy based on the analysis that is derived from the opinion of the users. Hence, this facilitates
better decision making by deciphering the emotions that is embedded in the word or a sentence
(Pozzi, et al., 2016). It is a known fact, that sentiment analysis can be used effectively for
extracting sentiments from contents displayed on social media. However, there are multiple
research works which has demonstrated that this phenomenon can be used effectively to counter
the epidemics. One of the research done in this regard, demonstrated that there is a strong
relationship between the frequency of social media messages and the online news articles. The
epidemic in question for this research was “measles”. The research demonstrated, how
monitoring of social media can be effectively used for the improvement of communication
policies that can create general awareness amongst the masses. The data that has been extracted
from the content of social media provide deeper insights into the “opinion” of the public which
are at a certain moment, are salient amongst the public, that actually assists the health institutes to
respond on an immediate basis to the concerns of public. In other words, through sentiment
analysis opinion of the public related to epidemic disease can be sensed, and appropriate action
can be taken based on that [4]. Opinion mining of social media content through sentiment
analysis helps the public health officials to keep a track of spreading epidemics and take counter
measure accordingly. They can also track the locations where the epidemic is spreading.
Moreover, through sentiment analysis of the contents of the social media, it will be easier to
detect the speed at which the epidemic is spreading. In another research it was found that social
media platforms like twitter can be used as an important source of information, in a real-time
situation. This helps to understand, how much concerned public is, on the outbreak of epidemic.
This can be thoroughly achieved by sentiment classification of the twitter messages to develop an
understanding on “degree of concern (DOC)”, that is exhibited by the twitter users. The research
adopts two-step process for classifying the sentiments, identifying the personal tweets and the
negative tweets separately. With the help of this workflow, the researcher developed a tool for
monitoring epidemic sentiments, that will visualize the concerns of the users of the twitter,
regarding different types of epidemics. In this regard clue-based learning methods and machine
learning method were used for classification of the twitter messages. With the help of
Multinomial Naïve Bayes method, a classifier was built, and was sentiment analysis of tweets (Ji,
et al., 2013). This phenomenon has been also classified as “knowledge-based tweet classification
for the sentiment monitoring of diseases. For sentiment analysis of epidemics, the investigation of
the sentiment dynamics of the media sources needs to be done primarily. Here, the media sources
include tweeter and different online news publications which publishes content on the outbreak of
epidemic diseases. A generic approach to perform the sentiment analysis will be as discussed in
(Kim, et al., 2015).
1.2 Approaches
There are multiple approaches that has been devised to detect the outbreak of epidemics through
twitter. One of the most common approach that is used to create a locational network for a
specific country is completely based on the data taken from twitter. The data is taken from the
social media of the created location networks and are integrated with an algorithm to detect any
form of outbreak of epidemic diseases. This approach can also be used to forecast the breakout of
any form of epidemic diseases (Thapen, et al., 2016). Another approach will be to make use of
Twitter API to extract the tweets with the epidemic name. Then the tweets are filtered based on a
given criteria such as tweeted by patients or GP, with the help of support vector machine
identifier (SVM) classifier (Aramaki, 2011). In fact, there are multiple NLP techniques that can
be used to extract the tweet data based on the keywords and detect the outbreak of any form of
epidemics. There are existing researches which demonstrate that the conventional sentiment

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analysis methodologies can be successfully used for sentiment analysis in the social networks.
This has been in practice since the early 2000. There are multiple evolutions of various types of
sources where opinions can be voices. Hence, the current opinion methodologies might no longer
be effective, in this redeveloped environment. In this environment, multitude of issues need to be
derived from the conventional sentiment analysis along with natural language processing.
Overall, this creates a challenging environment with different set of complexities that includes,
noisy content, short messages, variant form of metadata (age, sex, location). It is a known fact,
that social networks create a clear impact on the languages, and this has become a core challenge
of sentiment analysis. There is a constant evolution of language on the social network, which is
used to generate the online content. Also, most of the written languages is visualized though some
electronic screens such as desktop, laptop, tablets or phones, hence it could be said that the
interaction partly happens with the help of technology. Moreover, the language that is used on the
social media is more of malleable nature in comparison to the language that has been used for
formal writing. The social media language is made up of personal communication and informal
opinions, which is afforded by the mass users of the social media platform. This actually makes it
more difficult for the conventional sentiment analysis method to analysis the inherent opinion
from the given text. Hence, in order to adapt the changing language structures, research needs to
implement strong natural language processing skills and linguistic skills, along with the
conventional methodologies of sentiment analysis.
In this work we have taken the tweet data to arrive at the prediction of epidemic hit areas or the
probability of being affected by any major epidemic that can harm the lives and property. We
have used machine learning approach to arrive at the prediction and for comparison and analysis
we have used different feature extraction techniques and algorithms to select the best out of it. In
the next section we will be discussing about the dataset that we have tried to generate out of the
tweet data from the twitter and transforming it into the structured from un-structured data and
making it a supervised learning problem. After that we will discuss about the structure of the
system for predicting the epidemic and different methodologies taken up for arriving at the better
result which in case is the Accuracy and different parameters of the Confusion Matrix. Following
that will be the results section and Future aspects of the work and then conclusion.
2. DATA DESCRIPTION AND DATA PROCESSING
The work here, Epidemic Search model using the power of the social network data analysis and
then using this data to provide a probability score of the spread and to analyse the areas globally
going to suffer from any epidemic spread-out. The easily available social network data from
Twitter which in other words known as the tweet-data is very helpful in providing a lot of
information about any events happening globally.
2.1 Data Source
In the recent years, social networking has attracted a lot of users. Social networking sites like
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. creates a lot of data every second and a lot of information from
that can be got. Hence, this creates a space for doing some challenging research by
computationally analysing the sentiments and opinions of the textual data which are unstructured
in their behaviour. To achieve this, a gradual practice has grown for extracting the information
from the data available in the social networking sites like predicting the epidemic in this case. The
accuracy of the predicting model thus can be found out from the modelling output. To arrive at
the output of the scenario presented here, tweet data is analysed and to extract the tweet data
"Twitter API" is used. API needs to be signed up on the twitter and also has to have a login into
the developer Twitter account. Following it, an application or an API needs to be developed

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which can be then used to provide the keys and the tokens for using it in the programming
environment.
2.1.1 Data Extraction
The Twitter API can then be used with the Python Programming language to extract the tweets
from the Twitter and store in a HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) which is a distributed file
system that is designed to run on any commodity hardware.Tweepy is a python library that can be
used to extract the tweeter tweets. The tweets can be easily collected and can be stored in the
JSON format. JSON is a syntax for storing as well as exchanging the stored data.
2.1.2 Database Management
As in present scenario we have large storage of tweets, storing it on a single system and analysis
can be difficult due to large data. This problem can be solved using distributed system. Example
for storage we can use HDFS file systems or Apache Cassandra database management system.
Spark is a cluster-computing framework which can be used with them and for python we can use
python supported spark system which is pyspark. This has the advantage of storing very large
dataset and to be accessed reliably depending on the bandwidth of the user. Another advantage is
in the distributed system many clusters can host and execute directly attach storage and user
application tasks. In this system either MongoDB or Spark system can be directly used with
Python to extract the tweets and store in the distributed clusters. MongDB is a free and open
source cross platform document-oriented database program. In this json like documents are used
which has schema. It works on concept of collection and document. Where a document is a set of
key-value pairs. And Collection is a group of these MongoDB documents. Here, Collection is
equivalent to a RDBMS table. Also, it is contained in a database which is a physical container for
collections and each database gets its own set of files on the file system.
2.1.3 Pre-processing
Removing the stop words like the, an, a etc can be a good step as they don’t determine the
polarity or sentiment of the tweet. For this we mostly use stop words in English from nltk
package in python. Removing hyper-links, citations, references, hash-tags, multiple white-spaces
can be done by regular expressions which makes the tweet description free from the "unrelated"
English words and "chat language".
2.1.4 Polarity Generation
The predicting variable or the dependent variable which in this case is the polarity of the tweet
that is found out from the sentiment of the tweets using the text blob in python. It targets some
commonly areas like POS tagging (Parts of Speech tagging), Noun-Phrase terms extraction from
text, Sentiment Analysis, Text Classification, Language Translation in text etc. Here a simple
function for doing such task is used as below which targets for the tweet sentiment analysis: The
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Figure 1: Polarity Generation Function
the tweet. Thus, making the unstructured data into a structured data. Below is the head of the
data:
Figure 2: Head of the Data
2.1.5 Hash Tag Analysis
All the words starting with the symbol # are hash-tags. These are helpful in understanding the
trending issues. A word-cloud is an image representing the text in which the size of each word is
proportional to the frequency of occurrence. Hence the bigger words are the most tweeted topics.
A glance at the word cloud shows that most tweets are about the social problems like diseases,
malnutrition, starvation and some countries affected by them. In our case, most frequent hash
tagged words are Yemen, Cholera, Cholera Nairobi, zika, vaccines, The Story Of Yemen etc.
Below is the function that is used for the hash tag analysis.
Figure 3: Hash Tag Function
When the generated hash tags are generated and represented as the word cloud, it looks as below:

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Figure 4: Hash-Tag word Cloud
2.1.6 Top-Users/Citations
Similar to analysing hashtags, we can extract the usernames usually preceded by @ symbol. The
word cloud for the Citations is as below figure.
Figure 5: Citations Word Cloud
From the above word-cloud, we find that the top cited words are "washingtonpost", "Waabui",
"GrantBrooke","TwigaFoods,"ICRC" etc.
3. SYSTEM DESIGN
In the system design section, here it will be present how the steps are followed to arrive at the
prediction results.
1. Step: Tweet Data Streaming- Using Tweeter API
2. Step: HDFS MongoDB- Tweets extracted stored in MongoDB using
Python library pymongo
3. Step: Dataset for Training-Available data as text data from tweeter is
highly unstructured and noisy in nature and to use it for the modelling
purpose, it needs to be cleaned. The different pre-processing
techniques used as follows:
(a) Escaping HTML characters
(b) Decoding data
(c) Removal of Stop-words
(d) Removal of Punctuation
(e) Removal of Expressions
(f) Split Attached Words
(g) Removal of URLs
(h) Removal of quotes
(i) Removing tickers
(j) Removing line-break, tab and return
(k) Remove whitespaces

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2. Step: Label or Polarity Generation-The generated tweets without the sentiments class,
imputed with the class using the TextBlob library in Python. Three classes are generated:
Positive, Neutral and Negative.
3. Step: Feature Extraction- Different techniques used to analyse the accuracy of the
prediction:
(a) Bag of Words using CountVectorization, Uni-Grams and Bi-Grams
(b) TF-IDF - Creating a unique value for the terms in a particular document.
(c) Topic Modelling using LDA - To generate the topics for the corpus
4. Step: Machine Learning Model-The Features extracted or generated is fed into the Machine
Learning Model/Algorithms to generate the results.
5. Step: Results Generation
Below is the flow chart Graph for the above Algorithm:
Figure 6: System Design Flow Chat of the Epidemic Prediction from Tweets
4. EXPERIMENTS AND RESULTS
As the unstructured data is converted into a supervised learning process, it is important to see the
distribution and the counts of the different classes in the dataset. Let us now see how the
distribution of the different classes belonging to the tweets is:
• Positive Tweets: Considering only the positive labelled tweets and extracting words, we can
count the frequent words used in positive tweets. Word-cloud of positive tweets shows that
they include health, water, vaccine, sanitation among other things. The textblob shows that
there are 771 cases as termed as the positive class which is around 26.67% of the total
tweets cases. The word-cloud for this classes is as below in the figure.
Figure 7: Positive Sentiment Word Cloud

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• Negative tweets: Similarly, negative word-cloud shows that outbreak, dengue, worst,
Yemen etc. are most used in negative tweets. For this case, the total number for the negative
class tends to 692 which comprises of 23.96% of the total cases. The word-cloud for the
negative classes is as below in the figure.
Figure 8: Negative Sentiments Word Cloud
• Neutral tweets: Word-cloud shows that the most used words in neutral tweets are hotel,
cholera, Weston spread etc. The total for the neutral case tends to 1425 which is 49.34% of
the total cases. The word cloud for this class is as below in the figure.
Figure 9: Neutral Sentiment Word Cloud
The histogram of the polarity of all the tweets from the blob.sentiment polarity shows the
distribution of the polarity scores of each tweet class and is represented through the histogram as
below:
Figure 10: Histogram of the sentiment Polarity

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The histogram shows that maximum polarity of the tweets lies in the range [0.0−0.24)
approximately. If we closely observe the distribution that the tweet polarity follows tends to be
"Normal Distribution". To analyse more on the length of the tweet and the polarity class of the
tweet, when plotted, the histogram looks as shown below: This analysis shows that for the
negative class, the frequency of the word counts is mostly more near to the 140-word count. The
same is seen for the positive class but the frequency distribution is less than that of the negative
class. For the neutral class, the frequency distribution is more in between the word counts around
130-150.
4.1.1Machine Learning
Once we clean the data and get a rough idea about the data, we can use any supervised ML model
for sentiment classification since we already have the labels. Most of the approaches involving
text classification uses n-gram features. This comes under Bag of words model as it doesn’t care
in the exact ordering of the words. Recent advanced models using RNN/LSTM models take the
word order into consideration while classifying.
Figure 11: Histogram of the Sentiment Scores of different class
4.1.2 Sentiment Classifier:
Now for classifying the tweets and see how the prediction happens using different classifier, we
use the above tweet dataset and pass it through any machine learning algorithm and see how the
result is. Below is the comparison of the accuracies of the different models/algorithms that we
have used: The above analysis shows that Decision tree classifier performed better followed by
Figure 12: Comparison of the different algorithm performance

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the K Nearest Neighbour Classifier.
4.1.3 Words n-Grams:
A tweet (such as a sentence or a document) is represented as the bag (multi set) of its words,
disregarding grammar and even word order but keeping multiplicity.
• Strengths: Traditional, pretty solid feature representation.
• Weaknesses: Lose grammar/word order.
• Hyperparameters: The algorithm definition to execute
Below is the Feature Evaluation of different algorithms using the n-grams concept:
Naïve Bayes using Uni-grams and Bi-grams
Here we have used two Naïve Bayes algorithm. One is Bernoulli Naïve Bayes and other is
Multinomial Naïve Bayes. Bernoulli Naïve Bayes follows Bernoulli distribution whereas
Multinomial Naïve Bayes model is mainly based on the frequency of data. We have used the 5-
fold cross-validation technique in which 4 out of 5 folds (in other words samples) is used for the
training of the model and 1 out of 5 folds or the last fold is used for the validation of the model
performance. From the 5-fold cross validation technique, average accuracy for the multinomial
NB is found out to be 78.11% and that for the Bernoulli NB it’s found to be 78.42%, minimum
value for accuracy for multinomial NB is 61.53% and for Bernoulli NB is 65.16% and maximum
value of accuracy for multinomial NB is 83.36% and for Bernoulli NB it’s found to be 82.7%.
We can find that on the basis of the average and minimum accuracy values, Bernoulli Naïve
Bayes performed better than Multinomial Naïve Bayes. Whereas we find that the maximum
accuracy value if for Multinomial Naïve Bayes.
For the hold-out Validation method, accuracy of multinomial NB is 84.43% and the confusion
matrix for the same is as below:
Table 1: Confusion Matrix of Multinomial NB
Label Predicted Negative Neutral Positive
Actual Negative 175 20 6
Actual Neutral 32 373 23
Actual Positive 22 32 184
From this we can analyse that out of 213 negative sample 175 is predicted correctly while 20 are
wrong predicted to neutral class and 6 are predicted to positive class. Out of 423 neutral tweets
only 32 are predicted to negative class and 23 are predicted to positive class which shows that our
neutral labelled tweets are biased towards negative tweet. For positive sentiment tweets it gave
total 54 wrong classification where 22 are negative classified and 32 are classified to neutral class
and 184 are correctly classified. This also shows that chances of negative tweet to be predicted as
positive are comparatively very less than positive tweet to be predicted as negative. Although it
gave accuracy of 0.84 but misclassification is more when we see confusion metric. Same analysis
we can see from precision, recall and f1-score values as shown below:
Table 2: Analysis
Class-name Precision Recall F1-Score Support
Negative 0.76 0.87 0.81 201
Neutral 0.88 0.87 0.87 428
Positive 0.86 0.77 0.82 238
Avg. / Total 0.85 0.84 0.84 867

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Linear SVM using Uni-gram and Bi-grams
Accuracy for this model is 83.50% and when running using cross-validation method with 5-folds
our accuracy ranges from 71.06% to 84.4%. The mean accuracy is around 80.09%. Hence, for the
better representation and comparison we will be considering the mean accuracy for our final
evaluation. Confusion metric for the model is:
Table 3: Confusion Matrix of SVM
Label Predicted Negative Neutral Positive
Actual Negative 145 68 0
Actual Neutral 1 421 1
Actual Positive 0 73 158
From this we can analyse that out of 213 negative samples, 145 is predicted correctly while all
wrong prediction is in neutral. This shows that negative and positive sentiments tweets can be
separated much more easily as compared to negative and neutral sentiment tweets. Out of 423
neutral tweets only 2 tweets are predicted wrong and out of the remaining, 421 tweets are
predicted correctly. This implies that the model performed better for the cases of neutral tweets.
Also, for the positive sentiment tweets, it predicted 73 wrong classification out of 231. Which
shows same pattern as that of the negative tweets.
If we see precision, recall and f1-score we can see that F1 score of neutral tweets are higher than
negative and positive tweets which supports our analysis presented above.
Table 4: Analysis
Class-name
Precision Recall F1-Score Support
Negative 0.99 0.68 0.81 213
Neutral 0.75 1.00 0.85 423
Positive 0.99 0.68 0.81 231
Avg. / Total 0.87 0.84 0.83 867
Thus, comparing the above analysis:
Table 5: Comparison Results of Different Algorithms
Algorithm Value 1 Value 2 Value 3
Multinomial NB 78.11% 61.53% 83.36%
Bernoulli NB 78.42% 65.16% 82.70%
SVC 80.09% 71.06% 84.4%
SVC using "Linear" kernel performed extremely well for this analysis.
4.1.3 TF-IDF Vectorizer
We have used the scikit-learn’s TFidfTransformer to arrive at the features to
be input to the different classifier. We have used the following classifiers
along with their performances:
• Naive Bayes: 94.145%
• SVC: 49.34%
• SVM(TFIDF): 87.9%

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• Naive Bayes(TFIDF): 83.21%
Now including the n-gram analysis to our model, the following things we have
included and built in the model:
• Unigram classifier (with mark-negation and without)
• Bigram classifier (with mark-negation and without)
• Unigram and bigram classifier (with mark-negation and without)
The following the result analysis:
• Unigram Classifier: 88.75%, 89.44%
• Bigram Classifier: 88.58%, 88.58%
• Unigram and Bigram Classifier: 89.10%, 88.75%
4.1.4 LSTM Networks
LSTM is a variant of recurrent neural network, which takes information of its previous time steps.
In LSTM to handle drawback of Basic RNN cell for learning long sequences we corporates gates.
For this model basic cleaning has been done and after that we have tokenized input tweets. After
tokenization sentence is mapped with word index of its vocabulary and index of padding is kept
as 0, padding ensure every input record have same length.
For passing sentences to model few points has been considered
• Preventing learning of least frequent words: vocabulary contains 5000 most frequent words.
• Each sentence is fixed with length of 500: smaller sentences are padded and longer
sentences are truncated to length 500 words.
Here we are using self embedding technique for learning word embedding and embedded word
size is kept at 32. The model consists of 5 layers:
Figure 13: Architecture of LSTM
Below is the training of the LSTM model: We can see that the validation
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Figure 14: Training results of LSTM
5. REPRESENTATION
For Visualizing there are a lot of tools available to showcase how the epidemic distribution is
globally. Tableau is a visualization tool which can be connected to any database and different
kind of visualization can be created to understand the data and better representation of the data.
In this project, Tableau is used to generate a visualization of the epidemic hit areas globally. A
sample is presented below:
Figure 15: Epidemic Hit Regions using Tweet Analysis
6. CONCLUSION
The epidemic hit area prediction can be used to save a lot of lives globally. Here a lot of pre-
processing of the unstructured data is done to make it to a structured data and different features
extraction techniques like Count Vectorization, TF-IDF, Topic Modelling etc. is used to feed the
data into the machine learning algorithms. The most important is the sentiment of the tweets to

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see how the polarity of the tweet is. The metric which is used here is the "accuracy" of the
prediction and we have used the confusion matrix to arrive at the best performing algorithm.
Naive Bayes using TF-IDF performed better than other methodologies and gave a better result.
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Authors
Nimai Chand Das Adhikari received his Master’s in Machine Learning and Computing from
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2016 and did
his Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering and Technology in the year
2011. He is currently working as a Data Scientist for AIG. He is a vivid researcher and his
research interest areas include computer vision, health care and deep learning. He has started the
Analytic Labs research group.
Vamshi Kumar Kurva received his Master’s in Machine Learning and Computing from Indian
Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2017. He is
currently working as a Data Science Engineer for FireEye. His interest areas include deep
learning, video analytics, medical application and NLP.
Sankalp Kumar Nayak has 9+ years of experience in SAP Data Analytics. He has handled and
worked on multiple projects related to SAP data analytics in all of its phases (Implementation,
support/maintenance, up-gradation and roll-out). Also has 2+ years of experience in dealing in
RPA(Automation) projects which is also referred as Business Process Automation.
Ashish Kumar Nayak received his Post Graduate diploma in Applied Statistics from Indira
Gandhi Open University in the year 2017 and did his Bachelor’s in computer science engineering
from Konark Institute of Science and Technology in the year 2010. He is currently working as a
Data scientist for Accenture in finance domain. His interest area includes Machine Learning,
Computer Vision, NLP and statistical analysis.
Suhas S received his Master’s in Machine Learning and Computing from Indian Institute of
Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2016 and did his Bachelor’s in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from NMIT, Bangalore in the year 2014. He is
currently working as a Research Associate in Indian Institute of Science(IISc). He is a 'Big data'
enthusiastic individual with vested interest in 'Data Science' and his research interest areas
include predictive modelling, computer vision and applied deep learning.
Kumar Rishav is pursuing dual degree course from Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology. He is currently pursuing Optical Engineering (Masters) and has completed B.Tech in
Engineering Physics. He is doing his final year master thesis project from Institute for Applied
Optics, University of Stuttgart. He is also a part of the Analyticlabs Research Group and leads the
web development team. His interest areas are NLP, Computer Vision, Optics and Physics and
Web Development with API
Vaisakh Shaj received his Master’s in Machine Learning and Computing from Indian Institute of
Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2016. He is currently working
as a Data Scientist for Intel. He is a vivid researcher and his research interest areas include
computer vision, health care and deep learning.
Arpana Alka received her Master’s in Machine Learning and Computing from Indian Institute of
Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2017 and did her Bachelor’s in
Computer Science Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surat in the year 2014.
She is currently working as a Data Science Engineer for Busigence Technologies. Her interest
areas include deep learning, video analytics, medical application and NLP.
Hitesh Nayak received his Master of Business Administration from Great Lakes Institute of
Management, Chennai in the year 2016 and did his Bachelor’s from National Institute of Science

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and Technology, Odisha in the year 2011. He is currently working as a Data Scientist in
Prescience Decision Solutions and has 5 years of experience. His interest areas are Forecasting,
Deep Learning, Business Analysis, Management and NLP.
Karthikeyan received his Master's in Software Engineering from VIT University, Vellore in the
year 2017. He worked as a Frontend Associate and Fullstack Engineer in Busigence technologies,
Bengaluru. He has an in-depth specialization in developing business logic for the backend. His
interest areas include various kinds of web technologies and API designs.

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