Two Sentiment Analysis Libraries and How They Perform

Using the TextBlob and VADER libraries for Sentiment Analysis is easy but how accurate are they

Alan Jones
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 7, 2021

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Sentiment Analysis is not an exact science. Natuaral language is full of strange expressions, words that mean more than one thing, idioms, sarcasm and any number of things that make the extraction of meaning…

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