Sentiment Centipede

Reads in synthetic twitter data which has the text of a tweet, the number of retweets of that tweet, and the number of replies to that tweet. from a file then computes sentiment scores, and write out to a .csv file.

Also using words that express positive sentiment and negative sentiment in txt.

Key Concepts

• Read a file's contents, either as a single string or line by line.
• Use relative paths to specify a file's location
• Write to a text file
• I/O files in comma separated values format

Learning Goals

• Parallel assignment to two or three variables
• read/transform/write pattern
• Opening files with different modes
• Using split and assignment to multiple variables

Roadmap

• Create scatterplot with Matplotlib of Number of Retweets vs Net sentiment Score