The Sentiment of Rock Stars

An R tutorial to navigate through decades of song lyrics by artist, for beginner and advanced R users

Article preview: we will combine web scraping, parallel computing, and simple sentiment analysis algorithms in R, to visualize the evolution in the emotion of song lyrics for your favourite artists. We will go through the process together, step by step!

For my own research projects, I recently had to make the acquaintance of a few – new and improved –sentiment analysis algorithms. But…