chpatola/election_nlp

Analyse of election machine texts from the Finnish parliament elections 2015

Parliamanet Election NLP

About

NLP Analyse of election machine texts from the Finnish parliament elections 2015.

The data used for the prediction comes from avoindata.fi: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/fi/dataset/eduskuntavaalien-2015-ylen-vaalikoneen-vastaukset-ja-ehdokkaiden-taustatiedot

The result of the analysis is that the model could make party predictions of any given candidates "I want to work towards"- statemanet with approx. 44% accuracy on the test data. A complete report and statistics can be found under reports: https://github.com/chpatola/election_nlp/tree/master/reports

How to use

1. Clone this repository to your own computer
2. cd to the repository
3. Create a new conda environment where is the name you want to give the new environment. Then activate the enivronment

conda create --name <env> --file requirement.txt
  
conda activate <env>  

4. Set your base path at line 7 in predict_model.py

5. Run the code from the file predict_model.py.

python predict_model.py

6. The programme will print some output of the analysis but you will also find results in the reports folder: https://github.com/chpatola/election_nlp/tree/master/reports