IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world. According to Duff & Phelps, the brand value of IPL in 2018 was US$6.3 billion. Last night, R Ashwin reignited the spirit-of-cricket debate by running out non-striker Jos Buttler without bowling the ball. It turns out the dismissal was touch and go when it comes to being within the laws of the game. The experts of the game were divided in their opinions on the act. At the end of the match, Buttler shook Ashwin's hand but refused to look his way. Quite clearly the hashtagsentiments were running high. So I tried to figure out which way did the hashtagsentiments of the cricket enthusiast viewers flow. hashtagSentimentAnalysis is the process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of text, especially in order to determine whether the writer's attitude towards a particular topic is positive, negative, or neutral. Applying hashtagnltk and the hashtagNaiveBayes hashtagMachineLearning algorithm, I performed hashtagSentimentAnalysis on around 3500 tweets which trickled down to 2 visuals.

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