Extract sentiment scores
Sentiment analysis is useful in social media monitoring since it gives an overview of people's sentiments.
Climate change is a widely discussed topic for which the perceptions range from being a severe threat to nothing but a hoax.
In this exercise, you will perform sentiment analysis and extract the sentiment scores for tweets on "Climate change"
.
You will use those sentiment scores in the next exercise to plot and analyze how the collective sentiment varies among people.
Tweets on "Climate change"
, extracted using search_tweets()
, have been pre-loaded as tweets_cc
.
The library syuzhet
has been pre-loaded for this exercise.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Social Media Data in R
Exercise instructions
- Perform sentiment analysis for tweets on
"Climate change"
. - View the sentiment scores.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Perform sentiment analysis for tweets on `Climate change`
sa.value <- ___(tweets_cc$___)
# View the sentiment scores
head(___, 10)