I’ve been dusting off my machine learning/data-science skills by diving into Python, which has become a lingua franca (along with R) of the data analysis world. Python’s libraries for data analysis and visualization are really superb and can make quick work of complex data analysis tasks. Sentiment Analysis Today, it’s possible to use computers to quantify, with reasonable accuracy, the emotional “sentiment” of an utterance, determining if it is fundamentally positive, negative or neutral in…