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stats_lly · 10 years ago
The thickness of the line would be better used to show the standard deviation of the sentiment score?
willtachau · 10 years ago
Mm, that's a good point. Still, I think there's value showing the magnitude of tweets about a candidate
Shivetya · 10 years ago
Really can we we be any more obnoxious in pushing an agenda? I do not come to HN to read/see this tripe. The OPs slant is obvious just by the pictures selected, so will HN go this route as well?
willtachau · 10 years ago
Thanks.
fruiapps · 10 years ago
how about including ben carson, ted cruz and few others?
willtachau · 10 years ago
On the way! Though probably just Cruz and Rubio...
blademan88 · 10 years ago
How was this made? Looks great!
rorykoehler · 10 years ago
Click on the link on the top right of the page to see. C/P'd for convenience:

This graph shows the sentiment of tweets about Bernie, Hillary and Trump over time. The location of the line along the y-axis shows the average positivity (or negativity) of tweets about each candidate. The width of each line shows the volume of tweets (thicker line = more tweets). Sentiment analysis is done via Indico’s API, which is awesome. Tweets are streamed via Twitter’s Streaming API, because obviously. Built by Will Tachau

haberman · 10 years ago
I'm curious how accurate the sentiment analysis is when dealing with sarcasm, which I suspect is especially popular in tweets about politicians.

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rorykoehler · 10 years ago
Great work.
willtachau · 10 years ago
Thanks!