In today's world, the social media is everywhere, and everybody come in contact with it every day. With social media datas, we are able to do a lot of analysis and statistics nowdays. Within this scope of article, we conclude and analyse the sentiments and manifestations (comments, hastags, posts, tweets) of the users of the Twitter social media platform, based on the main trends (by keyword, which is mostly the ‘covid’ and coronavirus theme in this article) with Natural Language Processing and with Sentiment Classification using Recurrent Neural Network. Where we analyse, compile, visualize statistics, and summarize for further processing. The trained model works much more accurately, with a smaller margin of error, in determining emotional polarity in today's ‘modern’ often with ambiguous tweets. Especially with RNN. We use this fresh scraped data collections (by the keyword's theme) with our RNN model what we have created and trained to determine what emotional manifestations occurred on a given topic in a given time interval.

The prediction and speculation about the values of the stock market especially the values of the worldwide companies are a really interesting and attractive topic. In this article, we cover the topic of the stock value changes and predictions of the stock values using fresh scraped economic news about the companies. We are focussing on the headlines of economic news. We use numerous different tools to the sentiment analysis of the headlines. We consider BERT as the baseline and compare the results with three other tools, VADER, TextBlob, and a Recurrent Neural Network, and compare the sentiment results to the stock changes of the same period. The BERT and RNN were much more accurate, these tools were able to determine the emotional values without neutral sections, in contrast to the other two tools. Comparing these results with the movement of stock market values in the same time periods, we can establish the moment of the change occurred in the stock values with sentiment analysis of economic news headlines. Also we discovered a significant difference between the different models in terms of the effect of emotional values on the change in the value of the stock market by the correlation matrices.

The issuing and verification of higher education certificates, including all higher education documents, still functions in a costly and inappropriately bureaucratic manner. Blockchain technology provides a more secure and consistent way to revolutionize the widely used generalized mechanisms and system concepts. In this paper, the most necessary requirements are examined regarding a blockchain-based higher education system, based on the most well-known research papers. Moreover, the opportunities of working on an education system by maintaining a decentralized structure organization are recommended as well. This paper recommends the most suitable blockchain scaling solution for the architecture of an education system which uses the most state-of-the-art EVM (Ethereum virtual machine) compatible approach to implement the higher education system with all the predefined requirements. It is proven that the explained smart contract-based higher education system, which uses zkEVM (zero-knowledge Ethereum virtual machine), consists of all necessary functionalities and satisfies all predefined requirements. In fact, the recommended system, by using a modular blockchain structure, implements all the functionality and capability of the examined related works in one system, namely GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which is compatible and more secure.

Social media platforms are increasingly being used to communicate information, something which has only intensified during the pandemic. News portals and governments are also increasing attention to digital communications, announcements and response or reaction monitoring. Twitter, as one of the largest social networking sites, which has become even more important in the communication of information during the pandemic, provides space for a lot of different opinions and news, with many discussions as well. In this paper, we look at the sentiments of people and we use tweets to determine how people have related to COVID-19 over a given period of time. These sentiment analyses are augmented with information extraction and named entity recognition to get an even more comprehensive picture. The sentiment analysis is based on the ’Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers’ (BERT) model, which is the basic measurement model for the comparisons. We consider BERT as the baseline and compare the results with the RNN, NLTK and TextBlob sentiment analyses. The RNN results are significantly closer to the benchmark results given by BERT, both models are able to categorize all tweets without a single tweet fall into the neutral category. Then, via a deeper analysis of these results, we can get an even more concise picture of people’s emotional state in the given period of time. The data from these analyses further support the emotional categories, and provide a deeper understanding that can provide a solid starting point for other disciplines as well, such as linguistics or psychology. Thus, the sentiment analysis, supplemented with information extraction and named entity recognition analyses, can provide a supported and deeply explored picture of specific sentiment categories and user attitudes.

Due to COVID-19, the researching of educational data and the improvement of related systems have become increasingly important in recent years. Educational institutions seek more information about their students to find ways to utilize their talents and address their weaknesses. With the emergence of e-learning, researchers and programmers aim to find ways to maintain students’ attention and improve their chances of achieving a higher grade point average (GPA) to gain admission to their desired colleges. In this paper, we predict, test, and provide reasons for declining student performance using various machine learning algorithms, including support vector machine with different kernels, decision tree, random forest, and k-nearest neighbors algorithms. Additionally, we compare two databases, one with data related to online learning and another with data on relevant offline learning properties, to compare predicted weaknesses with metrics such as F1 score and accuracy. However, before applying the algorithms, the databases need normalization to meet the prediction format. Ultimately, we find that success in school is related to habits such as sleep, study time, and screen time. More details regarding the results are provided in this paper.