Distinguishing Sentiments

Instructions: In this assignment, the goal is to create a Python script to perform a sentiment analysis of the Twitter activity of various news outlets and to present your findings visually.

libraries used:

• tweepy
• numpy
• pandas
• datetime
• matplotlib
• seaborn
• vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment

Plots

Relationship Plot for Polarity Scores

Conclusion

While performing a sentiment analysis for Tweets from various news outlets, I noticed a few different insights. The insights are below:

Insights

• In the Correlation Plot for Polarity Scores, there is a correlation between positive and negative polarities. As the positivity decreased the negative polarities increased for each media source.
• In the Overall Media Sentiment Analysis Plot, CNN appears to have more negative compound tweets.


• BBC has the highest positive polarity scores when compared to all other media sources.