Glossary

Terms Descriptions
Posts with Keywords Number of posts hit targeted keywords
Comments under Posts Number of all comments under posts, no matter the words contain targeted keywords or not
Comments with Keywords Number of comments hit targeted keywords
Reactions / Likes Number of Reactions/Likes on posts
Comments Number of Comments on posts
Shares Number of Shares on posts
Views Publicly available view count figure. Refers typically to video views of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and article views of specific forums (like HK Discuss).
Engagements / Interactions Number of Reactions + Comments + Shares
Ripple Effects Ripple Effect calculates the number of posts and comments with keywords and the post engagements (reaction, comments, share) under posts. The figure indicates how far / strong / intense a set of keywords (topic) are happening on social media. Equation: Number of posts with keywords + Number of comments with Keywords + Reactions + comments (de-duplicated) + shares/retweet
Overall Sentiment The average of sentiment score per post
Positive % Number of Positive posts and comments with keywords / Total number of posts and comments with keywords
Negative % Number of Negative posts and comments with keywords / Total number of posts and comments with keywords
Keyword Cloud
(By # of posts and comments)
Counting frequency by unique number of posts and comments with keywords
Keyword Cloud
(By # of Occurrence)
Counting frequency by occurrence