Nick, Did anyone ever try to answer your question? My guess is that they are trying to do something fairly simple, like comparing the number of people who tweet "Go Obama!" vs. the number who tweet "F*@% Obama!".
If that is not what "sentiment analysis" meant, I would be very interested in knowing as well. Also, I'd be interested to know if there is any attempt to identify sarcastic "positive" tweets. Eric On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 06:50 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> > > >So, the question is: Are the sentiments of birds that tweet a random sample of the sentiments of birds that breath? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I confess I do find interesting the question of how one extracts a sentiment from a tweet! > > > > > > > > > > > > > >N > > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Perls >Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [FRIAM] Capturing Tweets > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I was wondering if anyone on here has, or is familiar with, capturing large numbers of twitter tweets and how one would go about doing it. I need about 30k tweets, 10k from three different regions. It looks like there should be relatively simple way to do this. I've been making my way though this: <https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods#count> but haven't found what I'm looking for. > >What we're hoping to do is a type of sentiment analysis, and look at how that compares to some polling data taken from these regions (I have a feeling what we'll find, but the project itself is interesting). > >Any insight is appreciated, or if anyone might have an interest in collaboration on the project. > > > > >> > > >Thanks > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > >Aaron Perls >Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc. >2403 San Mateo Blvd NE, Suite W-12 >Albuquerque, NM 87110 >505.917.6447 cell >505.889.3927 voice >505.889.3929 fax ><http://www.galisteoconsulting.com> > > > > > ============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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