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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONSVisual Science Completes Sentiment Analysis in Only 3 Days
Overview of Use Case
Priscila Castro had been using Alteryx for six years when she decided to open her own consulting firm. Visual Science offers analytics and BI solutions with Alteryx Designer. The company recently acquired Alteryx Intelligence Suite to gain productivity and to scale the rapid creation of predictive models with machine learning, without writing code or running complex statistics. In this use case, Priscila shares how she created a text sentiment analysis for a consumer complaint website in just three days. The site wanted to “identify emotions” in their data, better understand consumer pain points, and improve services for the companies complained about on the site.
Visual Science has more than 10 years of experience in different process optimization and management solutions. They use BI and analytics in small, medium, and large companies in many segments. Focusing on live and visual management, they create custom studies based on customer data, turning the decision-making process into a whole experience.
A company that owns a popular complaint's website in Brazil, was concerned not only with closing cases but with understanding the consumer experience from end-to-end. The process takes a while, and some steps in between the case opening and the moment when a company responds (and take action, if necessary) needed to be understood. Several conversations are saved in text fields, and the sentiment analysis helps to identify how each consumer felt throughout this process. Additionally, it's possible to analyze other data, such as response time, how long the complaint lasted, days of the week, specific periods as Black Friday, age group, segment, device type, the volume of complaints, among others.
The website works as follows: The consumer registers and files a complaint against a company that has the right to defend themselves and a chance to solve the problem.
Visual Science developed a dashboard containing a variety of data, including text sentiment analysis performed using the Intelligence Suite algorithm to identify consumer subjective emotions and feelings.
- Authentication via access token + API
The first step was to connect the API generating a token. Next, access the API, insert token, and download the JSON to organize all the data. “If I needed to write code, the same process would take a lifetime, with Alteryx I did it in 10 minutes. I brought the URL to the workflow with the token, downloaded the JSON, and delimited points”, says Priscila.
- Mining + Translation
The API brought a huge amount of data, more than 2,800 fields between metrics and dimensions. Mining and cleaning were necessary, especially in text fields. Each ID was separated by events, needing more in-depth work to concatenate based on the moment of each record. The sentiment analysis algorithm only understands English, so a simultaneous translation was necessary. We used a tool based on Bing Microsoft translator, available at Alteryx Gallery.
- Sentiment Analysis
When opening a complaint, it's possible to write a free text explaining the problem. After the company's response, the person who opened the case can say whether it was solved or not. They also have the option to write a final message. Since the intention was to understand feelings from end-to-end, text was divided into different workflows for each case. Before running the algorithm, the text pre-processing tool was used to transform all fields into lowercase and to exclude the main stop words.
- Consumer consideration in the input text
The sentiment analysis algorithm was used to measure the valence (whether positive or negative) and the magnitude (how positive or negative) for the emotion in the text, finding feelings in three levels: document, sentence, and characteristic.
- Consumer consideration in the output text
Using the same algorithm in a different workflow, the analysis shows the complaints' closing texts.
The final graphic shows the outbound and inbound complaints analysis, with the average outbound feeling concerning the selected period. Exit texts are considered more important since they express the consumer's final feelings. Next to it, the entry graphic shows negative percentages as a bigger entry problem.
- Recognition of Top Words
A specific study was created to categorize models and identify the most used words, in addition to their relevance. The output shows the most relevant words in the entire database.
4. Joining and Dashboard
This step joined all general information and feelings during opening and closings for each case. A Hyper output was connected to Tableau, continuing the dashboard development. The most interesting thing is that when you click on the feelings' graphic, the dashboard filters and brings only the information from that moment. This helps to segment the analysis by date.
The website will use the sentiment analysis dashboard, offering a consultancy service to the companies mentioned in the complaints. Their goal is to identify the cause of the problems and improve their services. “Without Alteryx Intelligence Suite it wouldn’t be possible to make this complete sentiment analysis so fast. This solution allows managers to filter specific problems, being able to take action immediately”.
In the future, the goal is to also use text analysis on social media, since consumers are using it to express their feelings about a specific product or brand.
