Chapter 11. Anomaly Detection on Sentiment Analysis
When we look back at the year 2016, we will surely remember it as a time of many significant geo-political events ranging from Brexit, Great Britain's vote to leave the European Union, to the untimely passing of many beloved celebrities, including the sudden death of the singer David Bowie (covered in Chapter 6, Scraping Link-Based External Data and Chapter 7, Building Communities). However, perhaps the most notable occurrence of the year was the tense US presidential election and its eventual outcome, the election of President Donald Trump. A campaign that will long be remembered, not least for its unprecedented use of social media, and the stirring up of passion among its users, most of whom made their feelings known through the use of hashtags: either positive ones, such as #MakeAmericaGreatAgain or #StrongerTogether, or conversely negative ones, such as #DumpTrump or #LockHerUp. Since this chapter is about sentiment analysis, the election...
