Useful Sites for analysis

*Abstract

             

              This time, I scrutinized two research sites which enable me to analyze the sentimental trend among people. One is “Social Searcher” which shows us a lot of useful information about particular keywords. The other is "Google Sheets" that has many remarkable evaluation methods in it. I actually used them, and tried to find out whether it is convenient or inconvenient for my experiment.

---“Social Searcher”---

[Review]

This site can evaluate the detailed sentimental analysis for various SNS community sites including “YouTube”, “Instagram”, “Twitter” and things like that. Also it can evaluate linguistic features like “types of users” and “Keywords density”. However, unfortunately, there are some drawbacks as well. For example, “Social Searcher” has no option to search the result data by the certain date. This means if you want to get information about public reactions one or two years ago, it would be quite difficult because of the deficiency. Given its unstable trait, collecting past data from SNS like “Twitter” might be so complicated. 

---“Google Spread Sheets (Using its add-on “Text Analysis”)”---

[Review]

              Nowadays, there are many computer software which can calculate sentimental analysis. Those divide sentences into three categories “Positive”, “Neutral” and “Negative”. For this week’s report, I happened to find another analysis application called “Google Spread Sheets”. “Google Spread Sheets” is a software which is provided by Google. It is quite similar to “Microsoft Excel” and many add-ons are available for it. “Google Spread Sheets” does not support sentimental analysis. However, its add-on “Text Analysis” enable us to evaluate sentences’ trend. The below is the example of the add-on function.

*For comparison, I attach the result of the Corenlp’s analysis.