Creating a sentiment analysis model with Scrapy and MonkeyLearn MonkeyLearn Blog

We are currently in an era of data explosion, where millions of tweets, articles, comments, reviews and the like are being published everyday. Developers are taking advantage of the abundance of data and using things like web scraping to do all kinds of cool things. Sometimes web scraping is not enough; digging deeper and analyzing the data is often needed to unlock the true meaning behind the data and discover valuable insights. On this tutorial we will cover how you can use MonkeyLearn and Scrapy to build a machine learning model that will help you analyze vast amounts of web scraped data in a cost-effective way. We will use Scrapy to extract hotel reviews from TripAdvisor and use those reviews as training samples to create a machine learning model with MonkeyLearn.