Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts

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Main Author: Al Kashari, Zainab (author)
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/1532
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dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2019-12-19T06:19:20Z
2019-12-19T06:19:20Z
2019-11
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dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv The British University in Dubai (BUiD)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv data mining
Government twitter
Dubai Government
machine learning
twitter data analysis
citizens’ engagement
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
ارتباط المستخدمين في تغريدات الجهات التابعة لحكومة دبي
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spelling Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accountsارتباط المستخدمين في تغريدات الجهات التابعة لحكومة دبيAl Kashari, Zainabdata miningGovernment twitterDubai Governmentmachine learningtwitter data analysiscitizens’ engagementUnited Arab Emirates (UAE)DISSERTATION WITH DISTINCTIONSocial media plays a critical role in the public sector as it allows the government to interact with the citizens. With the United Arab Emirates being active on social media platforms, this study then aims to identify the level of citizen engagement in Dubai government’s Twitter through the use of the data mining techniques. Decision makers in the government entities aim to engage the citizens in the various activities to better understand their perceptions, needs and expectations and accordingly take better informed decisions. This supports the transparency and trust of the government decisions. In this dissertation, the purpose is to contribute to the current research on social media by filling the gap on how local governments, especially in the United Arab Emirates, can increase citizens’ engagement on Twitter as preferred social media channel. Post engagement the total number of citizens’ interactions with a tweet and can be measured using different tweet attributes including retweets, mentions, hashtags and likes among others. Moreover, this study investigates the impact of the twitter post characteristics on the citizens’ engagements level. Thus, we collected, prepared and processed 74,037 tweets that represents all tweets for Dubai government twitter accounts during 2018. These tasks were followed by statistical analyses of the impact of post characteristics on the citizens’ engagement level. Next, we implemented various machine learning models to evaluate the performance of using the post characteristics and post content to predict the engagement level of citizens. Results indicate that citizen engagement level in Dubai government’s Twitter is significantly impacted by all post characteristics. It is also revealed in the study that citizen engagement is higher during weekdays compared to weekends. Furthermore, the machine learning models achieved promising results to predict the citizens’ engagement with highest accuracy for Random Forest and Linear Support Vector Machine of 78.3% and 78.2% respectively.The British University in Dubai (BUiD)2019-12-19T06:19:20Z2019-12-19T06:19:20Z2019-11Dissertationapplication/pdf20182356https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/1532enoai:bspace.buid.ac.ae:1234/15322021-09-22T13:17:56Z
spellingShingle Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
Al Kashari, Zainab
data mining
Government twitter
Dubai Government
machine learning
twitter data analysis
citizens’ engagement
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
title Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
title_full Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
title_fullStr Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
title_full_unstemmed Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
title_short Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
title_sort Mining Dubai Government Twitter Accounts
topic data mining
Government twitter
Dubai Government
machine learning
twitter data analysis
citizens’ engagement
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
url https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/1532