Sentiment Analysis is a text mining technique used to analyze the sentiment (unstructured data representing opinions, emotions or attitudes) about a particular product or topic, employing machine learning technique. Organizations across the world are extracting insights from the social data to understand how public feels about the product at a particular point in time. Sentiments are first categorized into negative or positive and then analyzed using various software like Hadoop. It can also be performed on excel. To know more, read the article at: https://www.brandwatch.com/2015/01/understanding-sentiment-analysis/
