This dataset contains 945 tweets referencing the US Supreme Court. Roughly half were collected on June 4, 2018 following the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling, and the other half were collected on July 9, 2020 following the Court's concurrently released opinions in Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Vance. Each tweet includes three independent human-coded sentiment scores (-1 to +1).
data(scotus_tweets)
A data frame with 945 rows and 5 columns:
A unique ID
The text of the tweet
An identifier denoting which Supreme Court ruling the tweet was collected after.
Hand-coded sentiment score (-1 = negative, 0 = neutral, 1 = positive)
CONTENT WARNING: These texts come from social media, and many contain explicit or offensive language.
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