Sentiment Analysis - Hands-On Tutorial with Python

Natural language is everywhere - from legal documents to tweets, from corporate emails to historic literature, from customer discussions to public inquiry reports. The ability to automatically extract insight from text is a powerful one.

The challenge is that human language is hard to compute with as it was never designed to be consistent, precise and unambiguous - in fact, that's its beauty!

We're very lucky to have Peter Conway of Hertzian lead a hands-on tutorial on simple natural language processing and sentiment analysis using Python - the leading programming language for data science.

The tutorial is designed for newcomers to natural language processing (NLP) and is suitable for beginner programmers. Peter will introduce just enough Python as the tutorial proceeds.

By the end of the tutorial you'll be able to analyse text for sentiment, as well as have a basic understanding of how sentiment analysis works.

Bring a fully charged laptop with working wifi.

You'll need Python installed with some common data science libraries installed - Anaconda Python is the recommended and simple way of doing this. https://www.anaconda.com/download/

The tutorial will start at 7.00pm. You can arrive from 6.30pm and the opportunity to meet other members of our community.