Festival Chatter on Ethan Rosenthal

Festival Chatter (Part 4) - Some Simple Sentiment Analysis

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I think this post will probably conclude my Festival Chatter series on analyzing Bonnaroo tweets in Python (part 1, part 2, part 3). I’ve had a lot of fun messing around with this dataset, but I think it’s time to move on to playing with something else. For this last post, though, I will show some simple sentiment analysis of the collected tweets. There are a whole bunch of issues with this method of sentiment analysis. I’ll mention some of these after presenting the findings.

Festival Chatter (Part 3) - Bonnaroo Analysis in the Fourth Dimension

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this series of posts (part 1, part 2), I have been showing how to use Python and other data scientist tools to analyze a collection of tweets related to the 2014 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. So far, the investigation has been limited to summary data of the full dataset. The beauty of Twitter is that it occurs in realtime, so we can now peer into the fourth dimension and learn about these tweets as a function of time.

Festival Chatter (Part 2) - Evaluating Band Popularity from Bonnaroo Tweets

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In my previous post, I wrote about how I collected tweets about the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival during the entirety of the festival. There are a wide range of questions that could be answered by this dataset, like

Do people spell worse as they become more intoxicated throughout the night?
Does text sentiment decline as people go more days without bathing?
Who in the world tweets from a laptop during a music festival?

I would honestly love to answer the above questions (and plan to), but I will focus on the most obvious question for this post:

Festival Chatter (Part 1) - Collecting Bonnaroo Tweets from the Streaming Twitter API

Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It seems like summer music festivals get more and more popular every year. I guess this could be the subject of its own post, but let’s stick with my personal anecdotal evidence for the time being. I remember only a handful of music festivals in the U.S. when I was in high school - Bonnaroo, All Good, 10,000 Lakes, and Coachella. I am sure that there were others, but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as present day. Even so, Bonnaroo remains one of the most popular festivals east of the Mississippi.