Word impact, frequency analysis
One of the easiest ways to explore data is with a frequency analysis. Although not difficult, in sentiment analysis this simple method can be surprisingly illuminating. Specifically, you will build a barplot. In this exercise you are once again working with moby and bing to construct your visual.
To get the bars ordered from lowest to highest, you will use a trick with factors. reorder() lets you change the order of factor levels based upon another scoring variable. In this case, you will reorder the factor variable term by the scoring variable polarity.
This exercise is part of the course
Sentiment Analysis in R
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
moby_tidy_sentiment <- moby %>%
# Inner join to bing lexicon by term = word
inner_join(bing, by = c("term" = "word")) %>%
# Count by term and sentiment, weighted by count
count(___, ___, wt = ___) %>%
# Pivot sentiment, using n as values
pivot_wider(names_from = ___, values_from = ___, values_fill = ___) %>%
# Mutate to add a polarity column
mutate(polarity = ___ - ___)
# Review
moby_tidy_sentiment