Lecturer in Information Management, Loughborough University
Dr. Martin Sykora is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Centre for Information Management (CIM), School of Business and Economics, at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. His research interests are in the areas of social-media, big-data analytics, natural language processing, data-mining, semantic web, information management and information retrieval. The computational analysis of emotional and subjective content within social-media / web 2.0 systems is one of his major interests as such datasets generated from and the dynamics of these applications are still little understood. Yet they hold great promise in a number of heterogeneous domains, for instance smart cities, PR brand management or national security.
How our tool analysing emotions on Twitter predicted Donald Trump win
Nov 09, 2016 19:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Technology
As the world dissects the how and why of Donald Trumps presidential victory, pollsters are already coming under severe criticism for getting it so wrong. But a tool we created that analysed emotions towards the two...
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