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Sentiment Analysis

AI-powered media sentiment tracking per party and topic, scored using Claude API.

Articles ingested
785
from RSS + Bluesky
Items scored
984
125% coverage
Model
AFINN-165 + Claude
AFINN only — Claude not yet triggered

How to read sentiment scores

Each article or social post mentioning a party is scored on a scale from −1 (very negative) to +1 (very positive). Zero means neutral. We average all scores per party over a rolling 7-day window.

−1.0 → −0.05Negative coverage
−0.05 → +0.05Neutral
+0.05 → +1.0Positive coverage

Sentiment by party (7-day rolling average)

NAT
New Zealand National Party
222 scores
0.00
LAB
New Zealand Labour Party
111 scores
+0.07
GRN
Green Party of Aotearoa NZ
86 scores
+0.13
ACT
ACT New Zealand
58 scores
+0.11
NZF
New Zealand First
103 scores
+0.02
TPM
Te Pāti Māori
38 scores
+0.10
TOP
The Opportunities Party
No data yet
—
NZL
New Zealand Loyal
No data yet
—
DNZ
Democracy NZ
No data yet
—

Composite Sentiment Index

Single score (−100 to +100) combining recency-weighted sentiment and media volume over the past 7 days.

GRN
Green Party of Aotearoa NZ+13
86 mentions · avg +0.132
ACT
ACT New Zealand+11
58 mentions · avg +0.112
TPM
Te Pāti Māori+9
38 mentions · avg +0.092
LAB
New Zealand Labour Party+7

Sentiment scoring pipeline

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Content Ingestion
785 items
✓
AFINN / VADER scoring
984 scored
✓
Party attribution
6 parties
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Rolling averages
7-day window
111 mentions · avg +0.071
NZF
New Zealand First+2
103 mentions · avg +0.016
NAT
New Zealand National Party+1
222 mentions · avg +0.005
Formula: weighted_avg × volume_factor × 100. Volume factor scales with log₂(mentions) up to 50 mentions for full weight. Recency uses 7-day exponential decay.