I followed instructions on this site to perform sentiment analysis about Starbucks from Twitter data feeds.

Here are data visualizations:

1. Sentiment Analysis: Starbucks on Twitter

2. Comparison cloud:

That’s about it for this post, Here are some related tutorials:

If you want to Install R on windows machine, here’s a Tutorial: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/13/lets-install-r-rstudio-on-windows-machine/

If you want to try out out Hadoop on windows, Hive and Hive excel add-in w/ Twitter Data, Here’s a Tutorial: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/16/how-to-load-twitter-data-into-hadoop-on-azure-cluster-and-then-analyze-it-via-hive-add-in-for-excel/

If you want to Grab Twitter search data using R and export to a tab delimited file. Here’s a tutorial: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/24/grab-twitter-search-data-using-r-and-export-to-a-tab-delimited-file/