The Puerto Sentiment Index is assembled via a daily count of positive and negative words found in the published online dailies in Puerto Rico.
Our work relies on the Sentiment dictionary compiled by Jose Cardona Figueroa and kindly posted on github.
We have incorporated numerous uniquely Puerto Rican words to the original dictionary.
In addition we have “reclassified” the original emotion ascribed to several words to account for any idiosyncratic Puerto Rican interpretation.
This work is a product of the Puerto Rico Nowcasting Lab.