Republican and Democratic National Convention Speech Sentiment Analysis

The project was inspired by an idea from my advisor, Brian Todd, to look at the sentiment of presidential nominees' convention speeches. Working with speech texts compiled from The American Presidency Project and sentiment analysis methods modified from Julia Silge, we focus on Trump and Clinton's 2016 convention speeches but also analyze speeches dating back to 1980.

For a brief preview, see some of the main results:

Repository Contents

• The .R script file contains all of the analysis code
• The .Rmd file is used to render the .pdf file, which contains plots of the sentiment data and our commentary
• The 'speeches' directory contains .txt files of all the convention speeches, as compiled from The American Presidency Project
• The 'plots' directory contains all of the plots output from this analysis, including those from speeches not shown in the .pdf write up