Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Comments: Potential Indonesian Presidential Election Candidates

Abstract

This study examines the public's sentiments toward potential candidates for the 2024 Indonesia presidential election. This study utilized YouTube comments on the Kompas TV channel, which features videos from potential presidential candidates, as its data source. Coberry is used to download YouTube comments, which are then analyzed using Python using the Pandas Library, matplotlib, wordcloud, and textblob. This study aims to determine the public's response to presidential candidates in the general election of 2024. This study shows that the public has positive sentiments toward the three presidential candidates named Ganjar Pranowo, Anies Baswedan, and Prabowo Subianto.