Energy Company Name

This project involves generating a new company name for an energy company. Inspired by Statoil's name change to Equinor (Source:https://www.statoil.com/en/news/15mar2018-statoil.html). It seems that in some tweets people didn't like the name or poked fun at it.

Objectives

There were two objectives outlined:

1. Determine the reaction from the public of the Statoil's new name using sentiment analysis and display results
2. Generate a completely new company name using existing company names. Test with public.

Training Set

Company names were scraped using Python from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_exploration_and_production_companies.

Libraries/Dependancies

1. Tflearn
2. textblob
3. tweepy

Limitations

Dataset

The training set did not include a full list of companies from around the world. Obviously, the bigger the training set the better. Results could be improved with a larger dataset.

Oil

The objective of the Statoil name change was to promote a more clean energy focused company brand. The training set we used involved company names that used the word "oil". Results could be improved by taking only clean energy focused company names. Yet, this would mean a smaller dataset to train upon.

Cleaning

1. Removed ampresand and used and
2. Removed accents
3. Removed Inc or S.p.A. or similar which related to their incorporation structure
4. (Tanzania)Plc was removed from Swala Oil and Gas

References

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_OZdbCzHUA
• https://github.com/kalradivyanshu/TwitterSentiment
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvoZU-ItDiE&t=2116s
• https://github.com/tflearn/tflearn/tree/master/examples

Licence

MIT