Collection and Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data on the Political Atmosphere

The past decade was marked, among other things, by the rapid growth of social networks. These networks collect personal data about their users - their photographs, interests, friends, locations, website visits, clicks, status updates and much more. A large number of users and a big collection of various data collected about the users make social media networks an abundant source of data that can be analyzed and used for targeted marketing, social phenomena analysis, generating different statistics and so on. In this paper we will use the potential of the tool RapidMiner in order to collect data from the social media network Twitter using the AYLIEN extension, preparing the data and applying sentiment analysis, which will give insight into the general atmosphere surrounding the actions of the current USA president Donald Trump