A Sentiment Analysis Study of Twitter Users' Reactions to the COVID-19 Vaccine

This study investigates public attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine through Twitter data analysis. Using the Twitter API, tweets were collected, preprocessed, and labeled. Features were extracted using the Bag of Words representation, and sentiment analysis was conducted using Text Blob and Vader. Machine learning and deep learning models were trained and tested, revealing that deep learning models achieved the highest accuracy and F1 score. The research underscores the efficacy of machine learning and deep learning in analyzing COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets, shedding light on factors influencing vaccine resistance. These insights are crucial for pharmaceutical companies and public health officials, enabling them to address barriers to vaccine acceptance and enhance the societal benefits of widespread vaccination, contributing to the pandemic's resolution.