introductory
With the development of the Internet, social media platforms such as microblogs have become an important channel for the public to express opinions and share information. Microblog opinion analysis aims to provide decision support for governments, enterprises and research institutions by analyzing the massive information on microblogs for sentiment analysis, hotspot mining and trend prediction through big data technology and natural language processing technology. In this article, we will introduce how to use Python to realize microblog opinion analysis in detail, including preparation, basic theoretical knowledge, step-by-step explanation, FAQ, result case sharing and complete code examples.
I. Preparatory work
Before starting the microblog opinion analysis, some preparations are needed, including data acquisition, environment setup and installation of dependent libraries.
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Data Acquisition
- Weibo API: Access to microblogging data through the API provided by the microblogging open platform.
- crawler technology: Use Python crawler frameworks such as Scrapy or BeautifulSoup for microblog data crawling. It is important to note that the crawler technology needs to comply with relevant laws and regulations and the website's protocols to avoid excessive crawling leading to IP blocking.
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Environment Setup
- Python version: Python 3.6 and above is recommended.
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dependency library (computing): Install the necessary Python libraries such as
requests
(for HTTP requests),pandas
(for data processing),jieba
(for Chinese word splitting),snownlp
maybegensim
(for sentiment analysis).
bashCopy Code pip install requests pandas jieba snownlp
II. Basic theoretical knowledge
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- participle: Splitting sentences into words or phrases is the basis of Chinese text processing.
- emotional analysis: Determine the emotional tendency of a text, e.g., positive, negative, or neutral.
- keyword extraction: Extract important words or phrases from the text.
- data visualization
- utilization
matplotlib
、seaborn
maybeplotly
and other libraries for data visualization and presentation, such as sentiment distribution maps and hot topic word clouds.
- utilization
III. Steps in detail
- Data preprocessing
- Cleaning data: Remove HTML tags, special characters and stop words.
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participle: Use
jieba
Perform Chinese word splitting.
- emotional analysis
- utilization
snownlp
Conducting sentiment analysis.snownlp
Simple interfaces are provided to determine the emotional tendency of a text.
- utilization
- keyword extraction
- Keyword extraction using TF-IDF (Word Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency) algorithm.
- data visualization
- utilization
matplotlib
Generate an emotion distribution map. - utilization
wordcloud
Generate a word cloud map.
- utilization
IV. Frequently asked questions
- Limited access to data
- prescription: When using the Weibo API, you need to apply for API permissions and comply with the rules for using the API. At the same time, it is possible to incorporate crawling techniques, but compliance needs to be noted.
- Poor accuracy of sentiment analysis
- prescription: Use more sophisticated sentiment analysis models, such as deep learning-based BERT models, or use labeled datasets for model training.
- Poor keyword extraction
- prescription: One can experiment with different keyword extraction algorithms, such as TextRank or graph-based methods, and can also incorporate manual screening.
V. Sharing of outcome cases
Assuming that we have acquired a batch of microblogging data, the following is a complete example of microblogging opinion analysis.
Case Code Example
import pandas as pd
import requests
import jieba
import as plt
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from snownlp import SnowNLP
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
# Assuming that the tweet data has been stored in theCSVPapers
data = pd.read_csv('weibo_data.csv')
# Data preprocessing
def preprocess_text(text):
# dislodgeHTMLtab (of a window) (computing)
text = (text)
text = ('<br />', '')
text = ('\n', '')
# dislodge停用词
stopwords = set(['(used form a nominal expression)', '(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)', 'exist', 'be', 'me', 'you', '(used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)', 'she', 'it', 'plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring individuals', 'there are', 'cap (a poem)', '(not) at all', '"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)', 'classifier for individual things or people, general, catch-all classifier', 'first (of multiple parts)', 'arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)', '(negative prefix)'])
words = (text)
filtered_words = [word for word in words if word not in stopwords]
return ' '.join(filtered_words)
data['processed_text'] = data['text'].apply(preprocess_text)
# emotional analysis
def sentiment_analysis(text):
s = SnowNLP(text)
return # emotional score,0.0-1.0Indicates negative to positive
data['sentiment'] = data['processed_text'].apply(sentiment_analysis)
# emotional mapping
(figsize=(10, 6))
(data['sentiment'], bins=20, alpha=0.75, color='blue', edgecolor='black')
('Sentiment Distribution')
('Sentiment Score')
('Frequency')
(axis='y', alpha=0.75)
()
# keyword extraction
tfidf_vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
tfidf_matrix = tfidf_vectorizer.fit_transform(data['processed_text'])
feature_names = tfidf_vectorizer.get_feature_names_out()
# pre-acquisition10classifier for individual things or people, general, catch-all classifier关键词
top_n_words = 10
top_tfidf_feat = tfidf_matrix.toarray().sum(axis=0)
top_indices = top_tfidf_feat.argsort()[-top_n_words:][::-1]
top_words = [feature_names[i] for i in top_indices]
# word cloud diagram
wordcloud = WordCloud(width=800, height=400, background_color='white').generate(' '.join(top_words))
(figsize=(10, 5))
(wordcloud, interpolation='bilinear')
('off')
()
code comment:
- Data preprocessing:
- Read tweet data from a CSV file.
- utilization
Remove HTML tags and remove line breaks.
- utilization
jieba
Performs Chinese segmentation and removes deactivated words.
- Sentiment analysis:
- utilization
snownlp
librarySnowNLP
Classes are sentiment analyzed and a sentiment score is returned.
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- Affective Distribution Maps:
- utilization
matplotlib
Plotting the distribution of sentiment scores.
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- Keyword Extraction:
- utilization
TfidfVectorizer
TF-IDF keyword extraction was performed. - Get the first 10 keywords.
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- Word cloud diagram:
- utilization
wordcloud
The library generates word cloud maps that showcase keywords.
- utilization
VI. Conclusion
This paper describes how to use Python for microblog opinion analysis, including steps of data acquisition, preprocessing, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction and data visualization. With complete code examples, it shows how to apply these techniques in real projects. It should be noted that the sentiment analysis and keyword extraction methods in this paper are relatively basic, and more complex models and algorithms can be selected according to the needs in practical applications to improve the accuracy and efficiency of analysis.
Microblog public opinion analysis is of great significance for understanding public opinions, monitoring public opinion dynamics and formulating response strategies. Through the introduction of this paper, it is hoped that readers can master the basic methods of microblog opinion analysis and utilize them flexibly in practical work.