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Predicting Sentiments using Logistic Regression Last document update:   ago

The goal of this project is to predict sentiments in twitter data using logistic regression, closely following the approach outlined in Chapter 5. The input data can be found at In order to use logistic regression, we need to come up with a set of features. One approach suggested in the book is to use positive and negative lexicons. You can find such lexicons at The file socialsent_hist_ has historical adjectives for each decade from 1850 to 2000 in the form of tab separated values. For exampl...