Textblob Subjectivity

High-Level Intuition

Measures whether a message is subjective or objective

Citation

Cao, et al. (2020)

Implementation Basics

To calculate subjectivity, we use the TextBlob Library in python. This library is implemented using the Naive Bayes Algorithm, Textblob which is a “Bag of Words”-based classifier.

Implementation Notes/Caveats

This function uses a “Bag of Words”-based classifier, which is a naive way of measuring subjectivity.

Interpreting the Feature

Scores are a continuous variable, ranging from -1 (extremely subjective) to 1 (extremely objective).