Data Visualization Sex for Grades
The
of
#SexForGrades
Twitter Analytics Report
Summary
We set out to measure the sentiments in the discussion of
#SexForGrades and gathered 390,000 tweets from Twitter between
October 7th and October 10th, 2019.
Data was collected with the keyword, #SexForGrades.
We cleaned out irrelevant tweets which included ads for products or
unrelated issues to the topic and had 270,937 issue-based tweets
from 67,706 handles.
BBC Africa was mentioned 32,262 times while Kiki Mordi the
investigative journalist who carried out the report was
mentioned over 10,708 times.
Oluremi Sonaiya
Awolowo University
University of Lagos Obafemi
Foursquare Gospel Church
Bukola Saraki Oby Ezekwesili
Perpetrators Journalist Predators Kiki Mordi
Suicide
Sexual Harrasment Investigation
University Drop-out
Prof Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo
African eye
Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA)
Hero
University of Benin
Ekiti State University
ASUU
Sex
Dr Paul Kwame Butakor
Lecturers
Investigative Journalist
of Arts
BBC AfricaFaculty
University of Port-harcourt
Dr Boniface Gbeneghu
Atiku Abubakar
Overview
The most occurring words in the
conversations in the period of data
collection were: lecturers, sex, BBC
Africa and Dr.
Boniface.
Other keywords like sexual harassment
and university also had the lights as the
investigation had other individuals, who
were not featured, share their own
experiences.
290,937
TOTAL TWEETS
67,706
NUMBER OF
HANDLES USED
32,262
BBC AFRICA MENTIONS
10,708
KIKI MORDI MENTIONS
Total Tweet by Tweet Date
248,160
Monday, Oct 7
Tuesday, Oct 8
Wednesday, Oct 8
Thursday, Oct 8
37,714
1,018
4,045
Total Tweet By Time of the Day
AM
77.99%
PM
52.3k
57.9k
55.6k
52.8k
10.8k
11.7k
22.01%
9.2k
9.5k
10AM
Total Tweet by Hour_Band
14.7k
8.7k
7.4k
11PM
Summary
About 78% of tweets with the #sex4grades keyword were sent out
between 12 noon and 12 pm during the time of recording.
On 7th October, the day the documentary was aired, there were over
248,000 tweets. This number went down to about 37,000 on Tuesday
and a little over 4,000 by Thursday, 10th October.
BBC Africa Eye
Numbers
Total Tweet By Time of the Day
86.5%
AM
PM
13.5%
Total Tweet by Tweet Date
248,160
Monday, Oct 7
Tuesday, Oct 8
37,714
10.9k
7.6k
3.6k
3.4k
2k
10AM
Total Tweet by Hour_Band
11PM
Summary
10,708
BBC Africa Eye was mentioned over
32,000 times by 13,915 twitter
handles.
5,549
On October 7, they had over 27,000
mentions. This number dropped below
a thousand by Thursday, 10th October.
Over 85% of the mentions were made
between 12pm and 11pm.
KIKI MORDI
MENTIONS
NUMBER OF
HANDLES USED
Kiki Mordi
Numbers
Kiki Mordi Mentions by Tweet Date
8.9k
Monday, Oct 7
Tuesday, Oct 8
1.7k
Wednesday, Oct 8
62
79
Thursday, Oct 8
2k
534
Drop out
Sexual Harassment
1.9k
1.9k
391
Perpetrators
Predators
Hero
449
10AM
Kiki Mordi Mentions by Hour_Band
1.9k
0.5k
11PM
Summary
Kiki Mordi was mentioned over 10,000 times by 5,549 handles within the
period of study.
Associated words included sexual harassment and predators. This is because
the core of her investigation was to expose this practice in West African
universities.
Other associated words included drop out, used to refer to her leaving school
due to attempted sexual harassment by lecturers in the University of Lagos.
Kiki Mordi was mentioned over 8,000 times on the day the documentary was
made public and was on the twitter trends table.By Thursday the 9th, the
mentions dropped to only about 79.
University’s
Dashboard
5,520
ASUU
University of Lagos
University of Benin
Faculty of Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University
University of Port harcourt
Ekiti State University
688
7
159
159
Monday, Oct 7
37
1
17
21
Tuesday, Oct 8
2
2
35
Wednesday, Oct 9
1
98
Thursday, Oct 10
Universities Mention by Tweet Day & Name of Universities
Summary
The University of Lagos was mentioned 6,534 times followed by the
University of Benin, which was mentioned 330 times, as past and
present students shared their different experiences.
ASUU was mentioned 716 times as regards the Anti-Sexual
Harassment Bill.
Lola Shoneyin also shared her experience in the hands of a DVC.
Influencers
Numbers
613
Influencers Mentions
by Tweet Day &
Name of Influencers
139
18
21
68
2
2
Monday, Oct 7
Tuesday, Oct 8
1
Wednesday, Oct 9
Thursday, Oct 10
Influencers Mentions
by Hour_Band
244
207
134
43
53
67
37
40
37
2
Summary
Oby Ezekwesili mentioned how ISSUES
of sexual harassment was dealt with in
the universities while she was Minster
of Education.
Bukola Saraki, Oluremi Sonaya, Femi
Gbajabiamila, Atiku Abubukar and
Segalink, amongst others, also
commented on the issue.
866
TOTAL INFLUENCER
MENTIONS
570
NUMBER OF
HANDLES USED
General Sentiments in %
Sur pr is e: 41000 - 3.3%
T r us t : 182000 - 14.7%
Ang er : 71000 - 5.8%
Ant ic ipat io n: 149000 - 12.1%
Fear : 84000 - 6.8%
Neg at ive: 158000 - 12.8%
Dis g us t : 49000 - 4.0%
Jo y: 110000 - 8.9%
Sad nes s : 67000 - 5.4%
Po s it ive: 323000 - 26.2%
Sentiment Analysis
Positive 26.2%: The Foursquare Gospel Church was
highly commendable for their swift response. BBC
Africa Eye was also applauded for bringing to light a
report of the despicable things that have been
happening for years. Kiki was praised by different
persons.
Sentiment Analysis (contd.)
Anger 5.8%: Response to “What you wear”. Women
and men were very angry at the statement that female
students were tempting male lecturers.
The sentiments and reactions were in anticipation of
the release of the full documentary and, afterwards, of
the committee set up to investigate sexual harassment
in the universities mentioned.
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