# Dataset Description

The Twitter Financial News dataset is an English-language dataset containing  21,107 total documents for topic classification and 11,932 documents for sentiment analysis. The data was collected by using the Twitter API. The current dataset supports the multi-class classification task.


## Task 1: Sentiment Analysis


### Data Splits
2 splits: train, validation. Below are the statistics for Version 3.0.0 of the dataset.

| Dataset Split | Number of Instances in Split                |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| Train         | 287,113                                     |
| Validation    | 13,368                                      |
| Test          | 11,490                                      |



## Task 2: Topic Classification





#Licensing Information
The Twitter Financial Dataset version 1.0.0 is released under the Apache-2.0 License.