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Twitter sentiment surrounding the Osama Bin Laden events

• orijing 15y ago
  It's not clear to me how you defined "happiness" on the vertical axis. Can you elaborate more on that?
  • robhawkes 15y ago
    Hi orijing, I cover this in more detail elsewhere but the happiness is found through the ANEW dataset. This dataset scores a few thousand English words with sentiment values from 1 (very unhappy) to 9 (very happy). I find the happiness value for each word in a tweet and then average that value by the amount of words in a tweet to get the happiness value for each tweet.
    • dy 15y ago
      How do you get access to this type of data?
      • robhawkes 15y ago
        The current version of ANEW can only be accessed for academic research. I do know that an older version is floating around in the open though, which they attached to a research paper.