Overtone’s Post

I continue to be impressed with Overtone's new tone model to not just classify articles but to understand trends over time in a way that I haven't seen with other sentiment models. Below you can see how our tones (which now include fear and hopefulness) looked at mentions of U.S. political candidates over time. As the Democratic National Convention comes to an end today, it is interesting to see how we can see changes in mood, including a spike of fear and sadness after the Trump assassination attempt and a surge in hopefulness as Biden backed out and Kamala Harris became the candidate.