Chapter 8
Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data
Section 2
Sentiment Analysis Upon Tweets – Polarity Analysis
Polarity is the positive, negative or neutral classification of the piece of text in consideration. The degree of polarity helps us analyze the extent (or degree) of positivity (or negativity) in the text. In this video, we will analyze tweets and score each of them based on the polar words identified in each of the tweets. - Extract tweets based on selected search terms or Twitter handles - Load list of positive and negative words to be used for polar word identification - Assign a polarity score based on difference between positive and negative matches