  In this paper, we discuss the nlpBDpatriots entry to the shared task on
Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts organized at the first workshop
on Bangla Language Processing (BLP) co-located with EMNLP. The main objective
of this task is to identify the polarity of social media content using a Bangla
dataset annotated with positive, neutral, and negative labels provided by the
shared task organizers. Our best system for this task is a transfer learning
approach with data augmentation which achieved a micro F1 score of 0.71. Our
best system ranked 12th among 30 teams that participated in the competition.
