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by rorykoehler 3793 days ago
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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

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