Cross-list: Sentiment Analysis using The Simpsons: Who's the happiest character?

A sister Meetup group in London is holding this event; in order to do our part to help "flatten the curve" of the spread of COVID-19, this will be an online event that will be held in the Greenwich Mean Time. We thought it might be of interest to our membership.

Sentiment Analysis using The Simpsons: Who is the happiest Simpsons character?
(original Meetup page:)
https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-london/events/275179825/

Date/Time
Thursday, January 21, 2021
3:00 PM GMT

The field of sentiment analysis and natural language processing (NLP) in general has had a boost in interest with new techniques that have come from the progress made with neural networks and deep learning. In this demo I will show you how to build a sentiment prediction model using the dialogue for the Simpsons TV show. The demo is built using a combination of R, Spark (Sparklyr + SparkNLP) and a BERT model. And you will find out who the happiest Simpsons' character is. Hint: It's not Ned Flanders.

Agenda (all times in GMT)

15:00 Welcome and Announcements
15:05 Introductions and Agenda
15:10 Jeff Fletcher: Sentiment Analysis using The Simpsons
15:35 Q&A
15:50 Raffle of door prizes (must be present and participating to win)
15:55 Preview of upcoming Meetups, concluding remarks