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Twitter Data Analytics of Announcement of Team India for ICC T20 World Cup

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I have to start off by admitting that my domain knowledge on the subject (BCCI and Indian Cricket Team) is not what it used to be. However, the announcement of the Indian Cricket Team roster for the ICC T20 World Cup on September 12th, 2022 left many of the folks I follow in social media in bad taste. Most of the posts were surrounding how the team selection was not merit based (a particular highlight being the exclusion of #SanjuSamson from the roster). I found this an interesting topic to pursue and started collecting twitter data from the 12th of September, till today Oct23rd. 325,847 tweets later this is what I have. I did not collect the data for the lull period of Sept 27th and Oct 4th. There was a lot of spurious data that was removed through R and a further filtering was done on the source to make sure bot entries did not make through into the data. There was quite a bit of manual stemming and removal of stop words in order to filter out the noise (BigBoss, Movie advertisements
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Comet NEOWISE | Time Lapse from across Mid Atlantic and South East, USA.

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Thunderstorm over the Shenandoah Valley

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Avengers Endgame | Questions | Lots of Spoilers and thoughts.

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Endgame turned out to be a good one time watch but fell a bit short of my expectations. Go in with low expectations and you might think differently. What follows next in this article is a bunch a questions I had and a ton of spoilers which go with them. Along with those are some of those goosebumps worthy moments in the movie and a small review as well. So read along only if you don’t mind the spoilers. How did Hawkeye end up with the Soul stone? Nat killed herself and she is definitely not one that Hawkeye loved the most. I thought you need to sacrifice that you loved the most to get the Soul stone ? The Time Travel sequence did mess up my brain. The second snap is supposed to have put things back to prior to when the first snap took place for the people who perished in the snap. It now meant that 50% of the population has lived all the way from 2018 to 2023 while the remaining 50 percent of the population is probably just waking up in 2023, seconds after they went into a nap in
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Lucifer | Malayalam | A thoroughly entertaining Thriller for Mohanlal Fans.

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Delivers to the hype. The Prithviraj Directorial debut, Lucifer, truly quenched the longing for an entertaining Mass movie from Mohanlal. It’s truly ‘the thriller’ that many of the recent high profile Malayalam movies promised to deliver but was unable to deliver. I must confess, I was not at all a fan of the recent ‘Pulimurugan’ circus as well (It was at best a below average movie) ! An Ensemble star cast, a humongous budget and the fabled ‘first venture’ into direction by prodigal son of Malayalam Cinema had ‘recipe for blockbuster’ written all over it from the day the movie was announced. However the recent high profile duds such as ‘Odiyan’ and ‘Kayankulam Kochunni’ did leave the skeptical Malayalee in me a bit doubtful at times. Lucifer, however, did deliver handsomely. A lot of what was on the screen owed to what was on the paper prior to the first day of shooting. Murali Gopi’s script gave us quite a few fan-worthy moments with not so subtle references to ‘Erupatham Noothand
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Triple Frontier | A decent action flick

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Worth a watch. Netflix had hit he ground running in 2019 with a host of big name Originals in The Meyorowitz Stories, Dumplin and Velvet Buzzaw. Triple Frontier now adds to the list. The movie however failed to deliver to the fullest of its potential. Triple Frontier leads us through the lives of 5 ex-special forces men who are going through less than ideal times in their lives. They decide to rob a cartel boss for a score that would set them for life. Oscar Isaac  and  Charlie Hunnam  as ‘Pope’ and ‘Ironhead’ were thorough in their roles, whereas Ben Affleck maintains his usual ‘I do not have any clue on what I am doing here’ expression throughout the movie. The movie passes through its best phase by the end of the hour mark and from there on its a slow meandering journey towards the end. Quite few of those sequences should have been avoided. I would recommend this as a one time watch but only if you are done with the better recent Netflix offerings in  Love, Death & Robot
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Alita: Battle Angel - A likable movie with certain obvious flaws

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The movie left me with mixed opinions. One part of me absolutely loved the VFX, the heroine and bgm. The whole premise was pretty new to me due to my ignorance of the 'Manga' world. I certainly understand what the craze is all about. However, when a movie ends with more questions than answers by the end of it its obvious to leave you a bit flabbergasted and that is precisely how i felt. If you are a fan of 'manga', it probably is a no-brainer but for the rest of the world this movie is going to evoke a mixed response. You will be Wowed by the heroine, doctor, VFX and action but would be left questioning some of the cliched roles and characters including that of the villain and 'hero'. All I can say is there is a better chance of you liking it than disliking it.
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