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VADER Sentiment Analysis

Overview

This function performs sentiment analysis on text using the VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) lexicon, which is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media.

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Usage

Analyzes the sentiment of the input text and returns a compound score.

=VADER_SENTIMENT(text)

Arguments:

ArgumentTypeDescription
textstringThe text to analyze.

Returns:

Return ValueTypeDescription
Compound ScorefloatA normalized score between -1 (most negative) and +1 (most positive).
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