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How Twitter feels about Bernie, Hillary and Trump: tweet sentiment analysis

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Re: How Twitter feels about Bernie, Hillary and Trump: tweet sentiment analysis

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How was this made? Looks great!

Click on the link on the top right of the page to see. C/P'd for convenience: This graph shows the sentiment of tweets about Bernie, Hillary and Trump over time. The location of the line along the y-axis shows the average positivity (or negativity) of tweets about each candidate. The width of each line shows the volume of tweets (thicker line = more tweets). Sentiment analysis is done via Indico’s API, which is aweso…

I'm curious how accurate the sentiment analysis is when dealing with sarcasm, which I suspect is especially popular in tweets about politicians.
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