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How Twitter feels about Bernie, Hillary and Trump: tweet sentiment analysis
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- blademan88 11y agoHow was this made? Looks great!
- rorykoehler 11y agoClick on the link on the top right of the page to see. C/P'd for convenience: This graph shows the sentiment of tweets about Bernie, Hillary and Trump over time. The location of the line along the y-axis shows the average positivity (or negativity) of tweets about each candidate. The width of each line shows the volume of tweets (thicker line = more tweets). Sentiment analysis is done via Indico’s API, which is awesome. Tweets are streamed via Twitter’s Streaming API, because obviously. Built by Will Tachau
- haberman 11y agoI'm curious how accurate the sentiment analysis is when dealing with sarcasm, which I suspect is especially popular in tweets about politicians.
- rorykoehler 11y agoGreat work.
- willtachau 11y agoThanks!
- fruiapps 11y agohow about including ben carson, ted cruz and few others?
- willtachau 11y agoOn the way! Though probably just Cruz and Rubio...
- stats_lly 11y agoThe thickness of the line would be better used to show the standard deviation of the sentiment score?
- willtachau 11y agoMm, that's a good point. Still, I think there's value showing the magnitude of tweets about a candidate
- Shivetya 11y agoReally can we we be any more obnoxious in pushing an agenda? I do not come to HN to read/see this tripe. The OPs slant is obvious just by the pictures selected, so will HN go this route as well?
- willtachau 11y agoThanks.