This article details a project that utilized data journalism and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze public opinion on a viral political debate, specifically focusing on over 8,000 YouTube comments related to Indonesian political figure Dedi Mulyadi. The author employed NLP as a journalistic tool to uncover hidden narratives within the comments, aiming to understand public sentiment, dominant emotions, and key discussion topics rather than determining political correctness. The process followed a typical data journalism workflow, starting with a research question and moving through data collection, cleaning, analysis, and storytelling. AI
IMPACT Demonstrates how NLP can be applied as a tool for data journalism to analyze public discourse and uncover narratives within large comment datasets.
RANK_REASON The article describes a personal project using existing tools for analysis, rather than a new release, significant industry event, or research publication.
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