Web Scraping and Naïve Bayes Classification for Political Analysis

This article reviews different methodologies used to conduct political analysis using various sources of information available on the Internet. In some societies, the use of social networks has a significant impact on the political field with society, and various methodologies have been used to analyze various political aspects and the strategies to be followed. The purpose of this paper is to understand these methodologies in order to provide potential voters with information to make informed decisions. First, the necessary terminology on web scraping is reviewed, and then, some examples of projects for political analysis that have used web scraping are presented. Finally, the conclusions are presented.