OhLookCake/EmoticonSentiment

Evaluating the relative sentiment attached to each emoticon, as interpreted from the sentiment of the tweets they occur in.

Emoticon Sentiments

The script gatherTweets.py reads from Twitter's streaming API, and writes any tweet with an emoticon in it to a file.
The R script scoreEmoticons.R then reads this file, scores each tweet, and searches for the presence of each emoticon (from a predefined list). The score distributions for each emoticon are then plotted.

A more descriptive analysis can be found on my blog Hot Damn, Data! -- The Happiest Emoticons