Text Analytics Cognitive Service could be used to quickly determine the public perception for a specific topic, event or brand.
Example: A NodeJS app which pulls Tweets from Twitter using the Twitter API based on a specified search term. Then pass these onto Text Analytics for sentiment scoring before storing the data and building a visualisation in PowerBI. The Architecture looked something like this:
Reference:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/measuring-public-perception-azure-cognitive-services-steve-dalai
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/overview