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Learn about sentiment analysis tools in Python

Learn about sentiment analysis tools in Python

- All right. So previously we learned about the basics of working with a Jupyter Notebook, and we saw that it allowed us to load in some data and do some pretty cool manipulation, visualization, et cetera with that data. So we're moving on now to Sentiment Analysis, which is a really in-depth topic. And it's sort of a subset of something called Natural Language Processing, NLP in the Data Science, and Machine Learning world. So the basic idea of Sentiment Analysis is this, when you read something on the internet, right, or when you read, let's say a sentence or a review on a website, generally as humans, we're pretty good at telling what the intention is or what the general feeling is behind that text. And there are obviously exceptions to this, right? I'm sure that we've all had that experience where we send an email or a text or something like that that gets misinterpreted. But in general, we're pretty good at telling if we see something saying, "This product is not very good"…

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