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Topic Analysis of Microblog About “Didi Taxi” Based on K-means Algorithm

Received: 30 July 2019    Accepted: 16 August 2019    Published: 2 September 2019
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Abstract

In the age of information and digitization, most users publish and obtain real-time information by microblog in social networks. Through effective means, we can accurately discover, organize, and utilize the valuable information hidden behind the massive short texts of social networks. Then we can explore hot topics in microblog, which is conducive to public opinion monitoring and marketing development. In today's society, Didi Taxi has become a necessary choice for many users to travel. This paper applied K-means clustering algorithm to topic analysis of Sina microblog short text on Didi Taxi. We crawled 17226 search results of microblog relevant to the topic of Didi Taxi from April 2019 to June 2019. After a series of data cleaning and data preprocessing steps, we used TF-IDF method to represent 15054 pieces of text data after processing. Through the evaluation of silhouette coefficient, we set the dimension of text 300 and the number of clusters 34 with K-means. Next, we extracted 8 topic clusters from 34 clusters, which include the advantages and disadvantages of Didi Taxi and its development status. Finally, we discussed the results by human check in semantic perspective. Through the topic analysis of microblog, we can understand the public’s attitude to Didi Taxi and provide the basis for the management of the government or company in the future.

Published in American Journal of Information Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajist.20190303.13
Page(s) 72-79
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Keywords

K-means Clustering, Topic Analysis, Microblog Text, Didi Taxi

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  • School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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