Co-occurrences of trending keywords in popular tech media

Co-occurrences of trending keywords in the tech media

Sources

• Gigaom 0.5%
• The conversation 1%
• IEEE Spectrum 1.6%
• Techforge 3.8%
• Fastcompany 4.2%
• The Guardian (Tech) 8.3%
• Arstechnica 8.8%
• Reuters 9.4%
• Venturebeat 14.4%
• ZDNet 15%
• Gizmodo 15.4%
• The Register 17.5%

Methodology

• Exploring the relationship between topics
• Pairs of terms which are mentioned together in media articles
• Most trending social issues have been selected (e.g. 'metoo', 'gdpr')
• The co-occurrence analysis is calculated for pairs consisting of emerging social issues and trending uni/bigrams
• The number of times the terms appear in articles together with a social issue is divided by the number of times the social issue is mentioned across all articles
• A single index is constructed for all word pairs by weighted average (taking into account the prevalence of the given source)

Files

unigram-unigram co-occurrences: cooc11weighted.csv

unigram-bigram co-occurrences: cooc12weighted.csv

bigram-unigram co-occurrences: cooc21weighted.csv

bigram-bigram co-occurrences: cooc22weighted.csv