Social Media Analysis and Topic Modeling: Case Study of Stunting in Indonesia

Abstract

Purpose: Stunting is a problem that currently requires special attention in Indonesia. The stunting rate in 2022 will drop to 21.6%, and for the future, the government has set a target of up to 14% in 2024. Rapid technological developments and freedom of expression on the internet produce review text data that can be analyzed for evaluation. This study analyzes the text data of Twitter users' reviews on stunting. The method used is a text-mining approach and topic modeling based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation.Design/methodology/approach: The methodology used in this study is Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The data was collected from twitter with the keyword 'stunting'. After, the data was cleaned and then modeled using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation.Findings/results: The results show that negative sentiment dominates by 60.6%, positive sentiment by 31.5%, and neutral by 7.9%. In addition, this research shows that 'children', 'decrease', 'number', 'prevention', and 'nutrition' are among the words that often appear on stunting.Originality/value/state of the art: This study uses the keyword stunting and analyzes it. Social media analytics show that the people of Indonesia are primarily aware of stunting. Also, the Latent Dirichlet Analysis can be used to create the model.