Time Series of Media Implied Economic Sentiments (Linear Support Vector Machine)

    Dataset

    Description

    This dataset consists of economic implied sentiments based on filtering of articles based on economic policy keywords. The process of filtering is described in :

    Rambaccussing, D., & Kwiatkowski, A. (2020). Forecasting with news sentiment: Evidence with UK newspapers. International Journal of Forecasting, 36(4), 1501-1516.

    Bowden, J., Kwiatkowski, A., & Rambaccussing, D. (2019). Economy through a lens: distortions of policy coverage in UK national newspapers. Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(4), 881-906.

    The construction of the sentiment scores uses supervised machine learning where the training, testing and validation is performed using Linear Supportn Vector systems.
    Date made available2 Dec 2022
    PublisherUniversity of Dundee
    Temporal coverageFeb 1990 - Dec 2018
    Geographical coverageUnited Kingdom

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