Coronavirus Semantic Field

A comparison of tweets and news related to Covid-19

By Sophie du Couédic and Polina Proskura

Problematics

There are a lot of concerning and debating news and discussion about covid. Today, words like "lockdown" or "sanitizer" hit differently than two years ago, when nobody could have an idea of what was waiting for us. Our work is a visualization of the lexical field related to the term "covid", which originally (we tend to forget that) is no more than a simple disease name. The more global goal is an attempt to grasp the mindset of the population going through such an impactful event. What are their feelings, their main concerns, questions that arise to their mind when they hear the word “covid”?

Words apparitions

Explore the relative frequency of apparitions of the different topics. The edges between the topics describe how frequently two topics appear together.

Number of topics

5-means Classification color scheme:
  • Medical
  • Emotion
  • Pandemy
  • Global worldwide
  • People


Topic apparitions in News and in Tweets

Country trends in Data