JSON is a standard format for sharing data, since it uses text fields that can be read by a human being. It is used by most web applications for data input and output.
In our example, we will use the Azure Text Analytics API. Given a sentence, this service can identify the text sentiment and the language and extract keywords, among other things.
The input sentence is I had a wonderful trip to Seattle and enjoyed seeing the Space Needle!. The API correctly identifies the language as English, extracts the main keywords, and tells us that the sentiment is positive (assigning a value larger than 0.5). All of this information is given in JSON format on the right-hand side of the window, and is available in the file we are going to import. The following screenshot has been extracted from the Azure Text Analytics demonstration page:
To load the input...