Evaluating the Quality of Public Services Through Social Media

Public services need to be evaluated regularly to identify areas that need further improvement. Data collection via Twitter is affordable and timely, so it has the potential to be utilized to evaluate the quality of public service. This study utilizes tweets mentioning three service units of the pro...

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Main Authors: Nori Wilantika, Septian Bagus Wibisono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CAPORCI 2021-08-01
Series:Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
Online Access:https://ajpor.scholasticahq.com/article/27330-evaluating-the-quality-of-public-services-through-social-media.pdf
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Summary:Public services need to be evaluated regularly to identify areas that need further improvement. Data collection via Twitter is affordable and timely, so it has the potential to be utilized to evaluate the quality of public service. This study utilizes tweets mentioning three service units of the provincial government of Jakarta and applies both sentiment analysis and topic classification to predict a rating/score of public service quality. The research goal is to examine if the evaluation of public services based on social media data is possible. The findings indicate that the use of Twitter has an advantage in terms of sample size and variety of opinions. Tweets can be translated into scores as well. Nonetheless, the representativeness issue and the predominance of complaint tweets can affect the reliability of the results.
ISSN:2288-6168