Nitheesha Nakka

Nitheesha Nakka

PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Predoctoral Research Associate
Nitheesha Nakka
Departments
Political Science
Social Data Analytics

Professional Bio

I am a Political Science PhD student at Pennsylvania State University. My primary research interests focus on social data analytics. More specifically, I study how online social media movements effects offline political participation. My current research topics include political discussion on Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. I am interested in computational methods including text analysis, machine learning and sentiment analysis.