Re:Hacker News sentiment towards Big Tech companies
by ardy42 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:29PM
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> Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot.
You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background info:
Facebook: yellower > quote bluer, starting around 2017 (coincides with a lot of criticism of disinformation spreading there/Cambridge Analytica).
MSFT: bluer -> yellower, guessing this is linked to them being less hostile to open source, etc.
Amazon: yellower -> quite bluer
Google: yellower -> bluer
> How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words?
You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background info:
Facebook: yellower > quote bluer, starting around 2017 (coincides with a lot of criticism of disinformation spreading there/Cambridge Analytica).
MSFT: bluer -> yellower, guessing this is linked to them being less hostile to open source, etc.
Amazon: yellower -> quite bluer
Google: yellower -> bluer
> How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis