Category Archives: Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis of Obama's First 100 Days – 52% Positive

In celebration of the 10 day anniversary of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, I felt compelled to create a quick sentiment analysis related to his performance Parameters: -Used ScoutLab‘s index of 86,106 positive and negative posts containing the word “Obama” and ignored ~860k posts with neutral sentiment -Date range was January 20th, 2009 [...]

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Buzz Monitoring: Google vs. Microsoft Sentiment Analysis

One of the most important discipline areas at iStrategyLabs is buzz monitoring. While we’re technology solution agnostic, we’ve been using ScoutLabs a lot recently because they’ve created a product that is much less expensive than their competitors (something our clients certainly appreciate right now) and it works quiet well. There are a number of ways [...]

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