Chapter 9 Walkthrough 5: Text Analysis With Social Media Data

Learning objectives:

• Understand how to retrieve data from Twitter
• Understand the robustness of Twitter data
• Learn basic principles of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Learn how to apply those principles to process social media data
• Learn how to use the tidytext package to analyze social media data
• Understand what a sentiment analysis is
• Learn how to perform a sentiment analysis on Twitter data