TEXT CLUSTERING ONLINE LEARNING OPINION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA USING TWEETS

Abstract

To prevent the spread of corona virus, restriction of social activities are implemented including school activities which reaps the pros and cons in community. Opinions about online learning are widely conveyed mainly on Twitter. Tweets obtained can be used to extract information using text clustering to group topics about online learning during pandemic in Indonesia. K-Means is often used and has good performance in text clustering area. However, the problem of high dimensionality in textual data can result in difficult computations so that a sampling method is proposed. This paper aims to examine whether a sampling method to cluster tweets can result to an efficient clustering than using the whole dataset. After pre-processing, five sample sizes are selected from 28300 tweets which are 250, 500, 2500, 10000 and 20000 to conduct K-Means clustering. Results showed that from 10 iterations, three main cluster topics appeared 90%-100% in sample size of 2500, 10000 and 20000. Meanwhile sample size of 250 and 500 tend to produced 20%-60% appearance of the three main cluster topics. This means that around 8% to 35% of tweets used can yield representative clusters and efficient computation which is four times faster than using entire dataset.