Personal portfolio project demonstrating a data analytic technique known as web scraping, on this particular project the analysis will be performed onto Barnes & Noble data.
Web scraping is a technique used to extract certain elements from web pages to develop quantitative resolutions from data. With the use of Sentiment Analysis, a useful method for detecting expression in text, web scraping can become a valuable application for many companies or brands who desire a deeper insight into their clients/ customers.
For this particular project, I extracted data from a Barnes & Noble webpage depicting a particular used-book seller feedback. I managed to gather the sites .html through Chrome's Developer Tools.
- textblob
- bs4 (BeautifulSoup)
- termcolor
The output of some of the "reviews" with the respective polarity preceeding.
The output of the count of both positive and negative reviews.