VAR in EPL ⚽️

How Video Assistant Referees (VAR)
Has Influenced Soccer Fans in the
English Premiere League (EPL)?

Text Analysis with TwitteR

⚽️

Unstructured Data Analytics
Notre Dame Mendoza
Spring 2020

Elena Wenpei Huang 旆

Goal of This Analysis
Questions to be Answered

1. Did premier league fans have positive or negative sentiments about using VAR?

2. What kinds of emotion did they express?

3. Did fans react differently based on the clubs they support?

4. What are the high-frequency words used by the EPL fans while tweeting about VAR?

Collecting the data

### Install packages
#install.packages("twitteR")
#install.packages("RCurl")
#install.packages("httr")
#install.packages("syuzhet")

### Load the required Packages
library(twitteR)
library(RCurl)
library(httr)
library(tm)

## Loading required package: NLP

## 
## Attaching package: 'NLP'

## The following object is masked from 'package:httr':
## 
##     content

library(wordcloud)

## Loading required package: RColorBrewer

library(syuzhet)