The Programming Historian (Jan 2018)

Sentiment Analysis for Exploratory Data Analysis

  • Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña

Abstract

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In this lesson you will learn to conduct 'sentiment analysis' on texts and to interpret the results. This is a form of exploratory data analysis based on natural language processing. You will learn to install all appropriate software and to build a reusable program that can be applied to your own texts.