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Sentiment Analysis

Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Time Stamp Graph Example of Sentiment Analysis Dashboard
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Time Stamp Graph Example of Sentiment Analysis Dashboard
Pie Chart Example of Sentiment Analysis Dashboard

Problem

Explain the opportunity for improvement we were called in to assist with.

Solution

A simple dashboard offering visibility into UT’s Twitter mentions. Each mention is digitally analyzed to determine if it’s positive, neutral or negative.

Impact

Could this solution be applied to other problems? Perhaps with some modification?

Cost Analysis

Description of costUsedUnitCost
Athena$5 per query in Terabytes0.011TB$0.06
Comprehend>50k, <1M units of text: $.0001 per unit33540units of text$3.35
ECR$.1 per GB-month64MB$0.10
EC2 Container Service (Fargate)Memory: $0.004445 per GB per hour880hours$3.91
EC2 Container Service (Fargate)vCPU: $0.04048 per vCPU per hour440hours$17.81
KinesisTier 1 $.029 per GB of data ingested0.354GB$0.01
LambdaCompute: $0.0000166667 for every GB-second1699.413GB-seconds$0.03
LambdaRequests: $0.20 per 1M requests5,628requests$0.20
  
   Total$25.47

Resources

Click here to view the Twitter Sentiment Analysis QueryDownload

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