10.Natural language processing02.Sentiment analysis - sporedata/researchdesigneR GitHub Wiki

1. Use cases: in which situations should I use this method?

  1. When the goal is to infer whether the individuals writing the text were positive or negative about that topic.
  1. To evaluate public perception of a certain condition, treatment, healthcare policy, or other health-related constructs - see Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change

2. Input: what kind of data does the method require?

  1. Free text written by individuals in the population where researchers would like to evaluate positive or negative feelings.

Describing with code

Suggested companion methods

  1. Data gathering

  2. Sentiment analysis software

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