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Instant analysis of Ed Miliband’s speech
We processed and analysed 3273 tweets during @Ed_Miliband’s speech.
Sentiment on Twitter around @Ed_Miliband at the beginning of the speech was 3.31 out of 5. It dropped slightly to 3.23 (a 0.08 drop) when @Ed_Miliband concluded. This compares to @Nick_Clegg’s 2.9 out of 5 (with a 0.14 drop during the speech).
Sentiment is scored on a scale of 0 to 5 where 5 is the highest and 2.5 is neutral. Despite dropping, the overall score remains positive.
The most mentioned parts of the speech were around: 1) support for AV and reform of the Lords 2) @Ed_Miliband’s stance on unions 3) civil liberties 4) the Iraq War 5) schools 6) the ‘good society’ 7) David Cameron 8) opening references to David Miliband 9) climate change 10) Red Ed and, of course, frequent mentions of term optimism and variations of ‘generation’ were widely present both on stage and in tweets.
Following the speech, we grabbed @audioboo reactions from Yvette Cooper; Alistair Darling and Peter Hain.
Bonus: @leftfootfwd have a word cloud of the speech.
