Sentiment Analysis of Tweets with tidytext
Build an R pipeline that ingests a dataset of tweets, tokenizes and cleans the text, and scores sentiment using tidytext lexicons, then visualizes sentiment trends over time. Learners practice text mining with tidytext, joining sentiment lexicons, and time-based aggregation.
- Estimate
- ~8h
- Steps
- 5
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- 0
- Proposed by
- codeseed.app
tidytext · dplyr · ggplot2
Project roadmap
- 01
Load and tokenize the tweet dataset
~1.5hLoad a CSV of tweets with timestamps and tokenize the text into individual words using tidytext.
- 02
Clean tokens and remove stop words
~1.5hRemove stop words, URLs, and punctuation tokens, keeping only meaningful words.
- 03
Score sentiment with a lexicon
~2hJoin tokens against a sentiment lexicon (like bing or afinn) and compute a per-tweet sentiment score.
- 04
Aggregate sentiment over time
~1.5hGroup sentiment scores by day or hour and compute rolling averages.
- 05
Visualize sentiment trends
~1.5hPlot sentiment over time with ggplot2, highlighting notable spikes or dips.
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