Sentiment Analysis Of Political Speeches Using Hugging Face's Pipeline Feature

The Github repo for this post contains a notebook and the data needed to generate some of the charts in this post, as well as a sample of the Plotly chart and CSV table of the results. The code can be easily tweaked if you wish to generate results for multiple speeches in one go. The data comprises six official speech transcripts taken from the websites of the Singapore Government as well as the Prime Minister's Office. These speeches focused on the Government's plans to deal with the challenges from Covid-19, and are set to frame the broader debate for Singapore's upcoming election. Some excessively long chunks of text were broken up into smaller paragraphs for a fairer assessment of the sentiment, but the vast majority of the speeches were analysed in their original form.