metadata

language:
  - en
license: lgpl-3.0
tags:
  - text-classification
  - transformers
  - tf
metrics:
  - accuracy
  - f1
  - precision
  - recall

distilbert-political-tweets

🗣 🇺🇸 Classify sentiment as Democratic or Republican.

Model

DistilBERT base model (uncased) for sequence classification fine-tuned on ~10,000 randomly selected tweets from Democratic and Republican senators from FiveThirtyEight's twitter-ratio/senators dataset.

The model was evaluated on a validation dataset of ~3,000 unseen random tweets:

{'eval_accuracy': 0.9348,
 'eval_f1': 0.9386,
 'eval_loss': 0.1975,
 'eval_precision': 0.9281,
 'eval_recall': 0.9494}