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What Food Do We Tweet about on a Rainy Day?

Social and Information Networks 2023-04-12 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language

Abstract

Food choice is a complex phenomenon shaped by factors such as taste, ambience, culture or weather. In this paper, we explore food-related tweeting in different weather conditions. We inspect a Latvian food tweet dataset spanning the past decade in conjunction with a weather observation dataset consisting of average temperature, precipitation, and other phenomena. We find which weather conditions lead to specific food information sharing; automatically classify tweet sentiment and discuss how it changes depending on the weather. This research contributes to the growing area of large-scale social network data understanding of food consumers' choices and perceptions.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05041,
  title  = {What Food Do We Tweet about on a Rainy Day?},
  author = {Maija Kāle and Matīss Rikters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05041},
  year   = {2023}
}