An insight into the mind of English Football fans during the World Cup.
Introduction Since Englands World Cup opener against Iran, I’ve been attempting to capture the Tweets of the, sometimes fickle, England fanbase on which to conduct some analysis. My goal was to capture as many relevant tweets as possible, then apply a model to conduct sentiment analysis on the contents of the Tweet. At a high level, the model analyses the Tweet text and applies an emotion to it, either Fear, Joy, Surprise, Neutral, Sadness, Anger or Disgust with a score between 0 and 100, where scores closer to 100 indicate a higher probability that the assessment of emotion is accurate (find more technical details at the bottom the page)....