Football Manager Interviews

Overview

Post-match interview texts from football managers for sentiment analysis and NLP practice. Includes multiple rating systems for comparison and validation.

Used in: Week 7 (Text as Data I), Week 8 (Text as Data II), Assignment 7

Data Files

File Description
interview-texts-only.xlsx Raw interview texts (121 interviews)
combined_text_data.csv Combined text data with metadata
combined_raw_data.csv Full raw dataset
domain_lexicon.csv Football-specific sentiment terms
game_data.xlsx Game results and context
aggregated_ratings_by_text.csv Aggregated sentiment ratings

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Code

File Description
sentiment-analysis.R R script for API-based sentiment analysis
sentiment_analysis.py Python script for sentiment analysis
domain_lexicon.r R script to create football-specific lexicon
api-key.R Template for API key setup

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Key Features

  • Real Premier League manager interview texts
  • Domain-specific sentiment lexicon
  • Both R and Python implementations
  • Human vs AI rating comparison framework
  • API integration examples (OpenAI)

Learning Objectives

  • Text preprocessing and cleaning
  • Sentiment analysis approaches
  • Domain-specific lexicons
  • API integration for NLP tasks
  • Comparing human and AI ratings

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