In this small project, a very rough estimation of the mood of the world is performed through the daily analysis of the headlines of several news websites. In total, 36 websites are scanned, which are divided in 8 arbitrary regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Russia and USA. A very basic sentiment analysis is done by comparing the extracted text with a sentiment lexicon of rated words.
That's how looked the evolution of the mood in different regions of the world from August to October 2014:
That's how looked the evolution of the mood in different regions of the world from August to October 2014:
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