working version of demo slides

1. NeutralOpinion
Visualizing how people really feel about net neutrality.
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Geneviève Smith | Insight Data Science NYC | August 2014

6. The FCC doesn’t usually get this massive a response
Number of comments/
complaints

7. The FCC doesn’t usually get this massive a response
Number of comments/
complaints

8. neutralopinion.com

9. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)

10. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)
Census tallies of houses with internet access

11. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)
Census tallies of houses with internet access
NLTK
(natural language processing toolkit)
to build term-document matrix
and used tf-idf to normalize

12. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)
Census tallies of houses with internet access
NLTK
(natural language processing toolkit)
to build term-document matrix
and used tf-idf to normalize
Found template comments by identifying
identical rows

13. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)
Census tallies of houses with internet access
NLTK
(natural language processing toolkit)
to build term-document matrix
and used tf-idf to normalize
Found template comments by identifying
identical rows
Scored sentiment using AFINN-111
2,477 English words rated between -5 and +5

14. Raw comments (~250,000 out of 1 million)
Census tallies of houses with internet access
NLTK
(natural language processing toolkit)
to build term-document matrix
and used tf-idf to normalize
Found template comments by identifying
identical rows
Scored sentiment using AFINN-111
2,477 English words rated between -5 and +5
Front end built using Twitter Bootstrap, AWS,
and D3

15. Why might we care about
template responses?

18. Lower engagement
More positive language
Higher engagement
More negative language

19. Lower engagement
More positive language
Higher engagement
More negative language

20. Geneviève Smith | Insight Data Science NYC | August 2014

21. Geneviève Smith | Insight Data Science NYC | August 2014

22. Geneviève Smith | Insight Data Science NYC | August 2014

23. Geneviève Smith | Insight Data Science NYC | August 2014