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School of Business and Management
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management
Bitcoin Text Analysis
Supervisor: YANG Yi / ISOM
Student: KAN Chunyue / IS Course: UROP1100, Summer
Bitcoin has become one of the most trending topics nowadays. It marks the dawn of cryptocurrencies and increasingly
attracts public’s attention. The price of Bitcoin is proliferating, however, the volatility casts huge concern and
uncertainty on its value. The advent of online Bitcoin forums plays a significant role in facilitating public discussion and
exchange of opinions for related issues. This paper utilized a set of text mining techniques to analyze the content and
sentiment people posted and expressed on BitcoinTalk, the largest and the most popular online forum, in order to
quantify the distribution of topics people discussed along with the variation displayed in their emotional behaviors as
Bitcoin price moved along.
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