Sentiment analysis on facebook group using lexicon based approach

Abstract

Internet is one of the primary sources of Big Data. Rise of the social networking platforms are creating enormous amount of data in every second where human emotions are constantly expressed in real-time. The sentiment behind each post, comments, likes can be found using opinion mining. It is possible to determine business values from these objects and events if sentiment analysis is done on the huge amount of data. Here, we have chosen FOODBANK which is a very popular Facebook group in Bangladesh; to analyze sentiment of the data to find out their market values.