Name: NFL Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

About this Dataset

NFL Twitter Sentiment Analysis

NFL Team Sentiment Analysis Dataset

Overview

This dataset contains sentiment-labeled social media posts about NFL teams, specifically focused on tracking fan reactions and public sentiment. Each entry has been processed through a fine-tuned RoBERTa model with custom sports context modifiers to ensure accurate sentiment classification in the context of NFL-specific language and events.

Data was scraped via selenium web scraper
📝 View Code on GitHub

Dataset Description

Features

username: Author of the post
timestamp: Time of post creation (format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.000Z)
text: Content of the post
team: NFL team referenced in the post
sentiment: Classified sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral)
confidence: Model's confidence score for the sentiment classification (0-1)
roberta_raw_outputs: Raw probability distributions from the model [negative, neutral, positive]

Key Statistics

Total Records: 3701 labeled posts
Time Period: November 2024
Teams Covered: Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions

Collection Methodology

Data sourced from public social media posts on twitter
Processed through a RoBERTa model fine-tuned for NFL context
Custom sports-specific context modifiers applied for improved accuracy
Automated cleaning to remove sales-related posts, media-only content, and irrelevant material

Potential Applications

Fan sentiment analysis during NFL season
Team performance impact on public opinion
Temporal analysis of fan reactions
Sports marketing research
Social media engagement studies

Limitations

Does not currently have all of the NFL teams, but the dataset will be updated over time and I will soon remove this.

License

MIT

Note: This dataset contains publicly available social media posts. Users should comply with platform terms of service and privacy considerations.

Tables

Nfl Sentiments

@kaggle.cammyc_nfl_twitter_sentiment_analysis.nfl_sentiments

778.07 kB
5,171 rows
16 columns

CREATE TABLE nfl_sentiments (
  "username" VARCHAR,
  "timestamp" VARCHAR,
  "text" VARCHAR,
  "team" VARCHAR,
  "sentiment" VARCHAR,
  "confidence" VARCHAR,
  "roberta_raw_outputs" VARCHAR,
  "unnamed_7" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 7,
  "unnamed_8" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 8,
  "unnamed_9" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 9,
  "unnamed_10" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 10,
  "unnamed_11" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 11,
  "unnamed_12" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 12,
  "unnamed_13" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 13,
  "unnamed_14" DOUBLE  -- Unnamed: 14,
  "unnamed_15" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 15
);