YouTube Political Sustainability Sentiment
Cross-country sentiment analysis of political sustainability discourse on YouTube
Comparative study of how political actors discuss sustainability on YouTube across six countries — USA, UK, Canada, Australia, India, and Pakistan.
Video links, comments, and engagement statistics were collected via the YouTube Data API v3, structured with Pandas, and scored with VADER sentiment analysis. Keyword frequency, temporal trends, and cross-country comparisons were then evaluated against engagement metrics.
Findings: “Climate Emergency” is the most-used keyword since 2019; “Renewable Energy Green Jobs” drew the highest view counts; comments on “Reforestation” content skewed most positive.
Stack: Python, YouTube Data API v3, Pandas, VADER
Status: Complete
Code: github.com/awais-de/dsdm