Real Talk Princeton

Subscription
Service
Real-Time Monitoring & SMS
Overview
● Used stdlib to run cron job to crawl
realtalk-princeton for updates.
● stdlib key-value store as
subscription database.
● On updates from
realtalk-princeton, parse post into
tags/categories, and send SMS
notification to subscribers.
Real Talk
Princeton
Historical Data
Analysis
Frequency, Categorical Data, Sentimental
Analysis
Methodology

- Used GCP’s Natural Language API to help

understand a dataset with significant amounts of
text (Q&A)
- Categorize Q&A → Identify temporal trends within
categories
- Performed “Sentiment Analysis” to identify the
writer’s emotions and attitude ( positive, negative, or
neutral)
Trends in Publish Time
of Posts
Weekly Post Frequency

● Recurring peaks when school

resumes:
○ Beginning of fall term (early
September)
○ Beginning of spring term
(early February)
● Troughs at the beginning of
longer breaks:
○ Summer break (early June)
○ Spring break ( mid-March)
○ Winter break (late December)
 Posts Made Between 2-4 am
Number of posts made between 2-4
am each week, normalized based on
number of posts total that week.

● Steady increase in proportion

of late night posts from Sept.
2017 to July 2018 over the
school year.
○ I guess stress is cumulative.
● Steady decrease in late night
posts from mid-summer 2018
to early Sept. 2018.
● Nonconformant fluctuations in
the first four months of the
website.
Trends in Question
Categories
Frequency of Questions in Jobs &
Education Category
● Interest peaks just
before schools starts

● Interest peaks before

school ends

● Minimum value during

Winter/Summer Break
Frequency of Questions in People &
Society Category

● Minimum value during

Winter/Summer Break

● More questions asked

during fall semester as
students are potentially
adjusting to the new
social sphere
Top 4 Categories:
Sentiment Analysis
 Averaged Sentiment Scores for Q&As
Weekly average weighted sentiment scores for
question and answer texts. Positive number
indicates positive attitude.

● Question sentiments dip substantially

immediately before school resumes in
September or February.
● Answer sentiments follow question
sentiments closely, while staying
consistently above
○ Questions have a more negative attitude
● Sentiments have decreased in general
over the history
● Sentiments peak in mid July and around
new years.