jakeraffe / twitter-sentiment_mining

Mining Twitter for data to analyse live sentiments about a certain event.

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Live Sentiment Mining from Twitter

Code repository for mining social media sites for data and performing sentiment analysis and support prediction. The above project is still under development to implement new features and use the mined data for new types of analysis.

Tried after reading @bonzanini 's blog and book: Mastering Social Media Mining with Python

Setting up the environment

Requirements: Python 3.4+

It's strongly recommended to create a virtual environment with conda.

Download Anaconda Distribution: Anaconda

Install it following the required steps.

Test your installation, in your Terminal window or Anaconda Prompt, run the command:

conda list

For a successful installation, a list of installed packages appears.

You can update all packages in conda anytime using:

conda update --all

To install NLTK, open your python shell and type:

import nltk
nltk.download()

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Mining Twitter for data to analyse live sentiments about a certain event.


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