The project consists of Performing sentiment analysis in Catalonia news content from diverse sites. The sources correspond to articles from december, november and october. Where an independence referendum and other remarkable events have taken place.

Since 2010 where some regional autonomy laws were stripped from Spain constitution, there has been a power struggle between catalonia and spain (the central government).

2016 and 2017 Have been very intense.

• multiple cancelations to independence ballots.
• Funding scandal for a president (Artur Mas)
• Ousted another president after Independence vote (Carles Puidgemont).

Catalonia wants to be independent even before spain.

Home to ancient community with traditions and language still thriving.

Catalan News, BBC, The Guardian, The independent, AbcNews, NPR, La Vanguardia, El periodico, RTE.ie, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg

• Restricted access to Spanish Corpus, no Catalan Corpus
• Very difficult reformatting of dates after site mining.
• Twitter restricts access to last 7 days, so it didn't become useful for the time needed for this project.

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