Machine Learning - Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Python

Learn why Sentiment Analysis is useful and how to approach the problem using both Rule-Based and Machine Learning-Based approaches. The details are really important – training data and feature extraction are critical. Sentiment Lexicons provide us with lists of words in different sentiment categories that we can use for building our feature set. All this is in the run up to a serious project to perform Twitter Sentiment Analysis. We’ll spend some time on Regular Expressions which are pretty handy to know as we’ll see in our code-along.