R Quick tip: Microsoft Cognitive Services' Text Analytics API

Today in class, I taught some fundamentals of API consumption in R. As it was aligned to some Microsoft content, we first used HaveIBeenPwned.com's API and then played with Microsoft Cognitive Services' Text Analytics API. This brief post overviews what you need to get started, and how you can chain consecutive calls to these APIs in order to perform multi-lingual sentiment analysis. Get the key by signing up for free on the Cognitive Services site for the Text Analytics API. Make sure to verify your email address!