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Interesting idea, but I personally do not trust Twitter data for analyzing sentiments, mostly because of the problem stated in the article: we often don't reall
by elbenshira 17y ago
Interesting idea, but I personally do not trust Twitter data for analyzing sentiments, mostly because of the problem stated in the article: we often don't really know (or worse, misunderstand) the tweeter's true opinion. I prefer good old-fashioned random polling.
- lukas 17y agoIt's a fair criticism, but the nice thing about analyzing Twitter is that the data is already there. Polling has its own set of issues - how do you randomly and uniformly sample from the pool of programmers? It's probably not something you could do for a quick fun blog post.