/political_sentiment

NLP and sentiment analysis of articles from left vs right-leaning news outlets (Politico and Newsmax).

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Uncovering Bias, An Analysis of Political News Articles

An NLP and sentiment analysis of articles and politcal figures from left vs right-leaning news outlets (Politico and Newsmax).

Link to deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L0c08jxwkTkid-FPhYRaMXu5D-l7-CQ7nAtXViMS1Ac/edit?usp=sharing

Summary of data:

  • Scraped 27k political news articles
  • Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
  • Politico, 14k
  • Newsmax, 13k
  • 820k sentences, 46 columns

Distribution of mentions across sentences: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L0c08jxwkTkid-FPhYRaMXu5D-l7-CQ7nAtXViMS1Ac/edit?usp=sharing