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2013-07-02
- politics
Gavagai at Almedalen
Gavagai’s technology lends itself well to analyzing opinions, and for that reason, we have been sought after at the Almedalen Week. Gavagai’s co-founder Jussi Karlgren is one of the key speakers at the IT Day. Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to how advanced language technology can be applied in the political sphere. Our analysis …

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2012-11-05
Tomorrow’s election in the US
Yes: we, as many others, have followed the US elections in the social media. There are many measurements of social media mentions out there, some thorough, some others little more than simple counting. (The fundamentals of the actual issues, polls, and electoral mechanisms are best summarized by Peter Norvig.) Ethersource has been reading social media …

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2012-06-16
Greek Election Tomorrow!
The Euro and the European currency union is the major topic of the second Greek parliamentary elections of this Spring, to be carried out tomorrow, on Sunday, June 17. Ethersource has been reading Greek-language social media for the past few weeks. Our prediction: ND will be leader in number of votes one needs more than …

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2012-06-07
- politics
Greek elections restarted
The Greek political scene is in full swing preparing for new elections on June 17, little more than a month after the previous elections in May failed to provide a useful basis for forming an executive cabinet. The blogsite Politik i Grekland has published some measurements we made on the relative stature in Greek-language social media …

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2012-01-04
Iowa and social media sentiment
We must confess we were a bit wary of extending social media-based prediction into to the minds of Iowans gathering in caucus halls around their state to select their favourite candidate for presidential candidate. Iowan politics is famously local: our measurements are global. As it turns out we were fairly good at picking out what …

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2011-12-29
GOP Hopefuls in Social Media
The blogsite amerikanskpolitik.se has published some measurements we made on the relative stature in social media for the main Republican party presidential candidates. Their blog post is in Swedish but the main observations are: Ron Paul has gained a massive boost in mentions lately and is now the most talked about candidate. (This is likely …

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2011-11-11
The Perry Oops and the impact on Perry Worry
US presidential primaries are a great spectator sport for those of us who do not need to actually cast our vote. The preceding week was no exception – and of course the sight of a presidential candidate fumbling the ball completely on camera was a rare sight. But how immediate was the damage, really? (For …

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2011-11-08
Tracking Swedish political sympathies in social media
This Fall has been more eventful than many in Swedish politics, in spite of no real political events taking place. The recently elected leader of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party has been tangled into a mess of possibly excessive and in any case overcompensated housing allowance remuneration. Our take: Centerpartiet is fading out of view …

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2011-10-27
Aversion towards Berlusconi reaches new high
We’ve monitored Silvio Berlusconi in English language social media for more than a year. In October, the aversion towards him reached a new high.

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2011-10-24
Analysis of buzz, hatred, and associations during the unraveling of Håkan Juholts accommodation reimbursements affair
In this post, we analyze the mention frequency, strong negative sentiment or hatred and terminology associated with the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Håkan Juholt, during the unravelling of his accommodation reimbursements affair. The analysis is made on the Swedish blogosphere between October 1 and 19, 2011, by using Ethersource technology and our proprietary …

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