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Exercise

Calculating sentiment scores

A rough measure of sentiment towards a particular hashtag is to measure average sentiment for tweets mentioning a particular hashtag. It's also possible that other things are happening in that tweet, so it's important to inspect both text as well as metrics generated by automated text methods.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Print out the first example of a positive tweet. Select the DataFrame with sentiment > 0.6 and use .values to get the full text of the tweet.
  • Do the same for negative tweets with the index sentiment < -0.6.
  • Generate average sentiment score per day for #python with the index check_word_in_tweet. Use .resample() with argument '1 d'. Then take the mean.
  • Do the same with #rstats.