First GOP Debate Twitter Sentiment (CrowdFlower)
First GOP debate sentiment analysis: 13,871 tweets about the Republican presidential primary debate in Ohio in August 2015, as labeled by Figure Eight (CrowdFlower) contributors, who judged whether each tweet was relevant, which candidate it mentioned, which subject it concerned and its sentiment. The publisher says the non-relevant messages were removed, and all 13,871 rows are marked relevant. Sentiment: 8,493 Negative, 3,142 Neutral, 2,236 Positive. Candidate: 11 values plus 96 empty. Each row has the four labels with their confidence values, the author's screen name, the tweet text, retweet count, time, free-text location and time zone; 21 tweets carry coordinates. The package also holds the copy of the data from the folder named kaggle-v2 (Sentiment.csv, 13,871 rows) as its own table.
Cite this dataset at
gop-debate-sentiment.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 12,706 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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- Negative8.5K (61.2%)
- Neutral3.1K (22.7%)
- Positive2.2K (16.1%)
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
gop-debate-sentiment- Authors
- CrowdFlower
- Year
- 2015
- Source paper
- First GOP Debate Twitter Sentiment
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (Figure Eight 'Data for Everyone' library) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 13,871
- Nodes
- 12,706
- Edges
- 12,383 (directed)
- Nodes are
- account
- Edges are
- mention (author -> @mentioned account)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Text corpus
- tweet text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2015-08-06 to 2015-08-07 (2010s)
- Tasks
- Text classification (multi-class;
candidate_label, subject_label) inferred, Sentiment classification (multi-class;sentiment_label) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/crowdflower/first-gop-debate-twitter-sentiment link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-20, 7.2 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (13,871 rows), annotations (55,484 rows), x_kaggle_sentiment (13,871 rows).
- Structure
- Labelled data, Text
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{crowdflower2015firstgopdeba,
title = {First GOP Debate Twitter Sentiment},
author = {CrowdFlower},
year = {2015},
note = {Data for Everyone library, added 2015-08-11},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.figure-eight.com/data-for-everyone/}}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
CrowdFlower (2015). First GOP Debate Twitter Sentiment (CrowdFlower) [Data set]. https://gop-debate-sentiment.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
CrowdFlower. First GOP Debate Twitter Sentiment (CrowdFlower). 2015, gop-debate-sentiment.echo.directory/.