Sentiment and Mobility Analysis on COVID-19 Restrictions with Autoencoder

In 2020, the world was attacked by a virus known as the COVID-19 virus. Restrictions on people's activities were conducted in various countries to prevent the spread of the virus. However, since people were vaccinated, restriction levels have been reduced or eliminated, although the new cases of COVID-19 worldwide have not ended. People's responses to restriction policies vary, including sentiment and human mobility. The possibility of sentiment is either support or resistance, while mobility is staying at home or not. This study analyzes the proportion between the two responses through two types of data: Text for sentiment and time series for mobility. Sentiment text data is taken from Twitter and mobility time series data is taken from Google Mobility for February 2020 to April 2022. Twitter and Google Mobility data are collected from several countries using English and implementing restrictions: Australia, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US). The unsupervised Autoencoder model is leveraged to find clusters. Two Autoencoder architectures are proposed for each data type. Before being used in Multilayer Autoencoder, text data is converted to vector data by Word2Vec. On the other hand, LSTM-Autoencoder is used for time series data. Finally, hypothesis tests are performed to determine the mean between the clusters formed is the same or different, out of five countries, only Canada has a null hypothesis is accepted, that means people in Canada tend to be neutral in response to COVID-19 while mobilities are dynamics, it reveals that people in Canada obey the government's decision on restrictions during the rise of COVID-19 cases. © 2022 ACM.

COVID-19 Vaccines in Indonesia: A Public Opinion Study Based on Twitter Data Multidimensional Sentiment Analysis

Vaccination is one of several solutions to control the spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, it turns out that vaccination is not well received by the community, resulting in public disputes across the country. This study analyzes the relevance of vaccines to several points of view, such as political, economic, and spiritual, which aims to confirm the effectiveness of mass vaccination in reducing the spread of COVID-19. We used the Indo-BERT (Bahasa Indonesia of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) method to see public sentiment towards vaccinations. The result of this research is that people's sentiments tend to be more political, economic, social, and spiritual. © 2022 ACM.

Mask usage recognition using vision transformer with transfer learning and data augmentation

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted various levels of society. The use of masks is essential in preventing the spread of COVID-19 by identifying an image of a person using a mask. Although only 23.1% of people use masks correctly, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) can help classify the use of good masks to help slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. However, it requires a large dataset to train an ANN that can classify the use of masks correctly. MaskedFace-Net is a suitable dataset consisting of 137016 digital images with 4 class labels, namely Mask, Mask Chin, Mask Mouth Chin, and Mask Nose Mouth. Mask classification training utilizes Vision Transformers (ViT) architecture with transfer learning method using pre-trained weights on ImageNet-21k, with random augmentation. In addition, the hyper-parameters of training of 20 epochs, an Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimizer with a learning rate of 0.03, a batch size of 64, a Gaussian Cumulative Distribution (GeLU) activation function, and a Cross-Entropy loss function are used to be applied on the training of three architectures of ViT, namely Base-16, Large-16, and Huge-14. Furthermore, comparisons of with and without augmentation and transfer learning are conducted. This study found that the best classification is transfer learning and augmentation using ViT Huge-14. Using this method on MaskedFace-Net dataset, the research reaches an accuracy of 0.9601 on training data, 0.9412 on validation data, and 0.9534 on test data. This research shows that training the ViT model with data augmentation and transfer learning improves classification of the mask usage, even better than convolutional-based Residual Network (ResNet). © 2023 The Author(s)

Multicommodity Prices Prediction Using Multivariate Data-Driven Modeling: Indonesia Case

One of the problems experienced by micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) during this pandemic is that most MSME actors do not understand plan-making during a crisis. This situation was exacerbated by erratic commodity prices, which resulted in several MSME players choosing to temporarily close because their turnover got a drastic decline. To help MSME actors maintain their business by knowing commodity price predictions, we propose a deep learning model using the long short-term memory (LSTM) method to predict commodity prices in Indonesia. LSTM is a type of recurrent neural network (RNN) with a memory cell to store information and solve the vanishing gradient problem in RNN. Furthermore, multivariate LSTM leverages the model to predict datasets with more than one feature. This study used a dataset collected from the Pusat Informasi Harga Pangan Strategis Nasional (PIHPS Nasional) managed by the Indonesian Ministry of Finance and Bank Indonesia consisting of significantly contributed food commodities to the formation of (strategic) inflation rates in Indonesia. The time range of commodity prices is from August 1, 2017, to July 30, 2021. There are 11 commodity price features in the dataset, namely, rice, chicken meat, eggs, onions, garlic, large red chilies, curly red chilies, red chilies, green chilies, cooking oil, and sugar. The lowest mean absolute error (MAE) on prediction is up to 255.998 obtained by the attention multivariate LSTM model with the Adam optimizer, adding batch normalization (Batchnorm) layer, reducing LSTM layer, hidden size, and grouped features. It makes the prediction more accurate and avoids overfitting and underfitting in this case. IEEE

COVID-19 Growth Prediction using Multivariate Long Short Term Memory

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread forecasting is an important task to track the growth of the pandemic. Existing predictions are merely based on qualitative analyses and mathematical modeling. The use of available big data with machine learning is still limited in COVID-19 growth prediction even though the availability of data is abundance. To make use of big data in the prediction using deep learning, we use long short-term memory (LSTM) method to learn the correlation of COVID-19 growth over time. The structure of an LSTM layer is searched heuristically until the best validation score is achieved. First, we trained training data containing confirmed cases from around the globe. We achieved favorable performance compared with that of the recurrent neural network (RNN) and vector autoregression (VAR) method with a comparable low validation error. The evaluation is conducted based on graph visualization and root mean squared error (RMSE). We found that it is not easy to achieve the same quantity of confirmed cases over time. However, LSTM provide a similar pattern between the actual cases and prediction. In the future, our proposed prediction can be used for anticipating forthcoming pandemics. The code is provided here: https://github.com/cbasemaster/lstmcorona © 2020. All Rights Reserved.