University of Sheffield, NLP Case study: (Almost) Real-Time Social Media Analysis of Political Tweets University of Sheffield, NLP We are all connected to each other... ? Information, thoughts and opinions are shared prolifically on the social web these days ? 72% of online adults use social networking sites University of Sheffield, NLP Your grandmother is three times as likely to use a social networking site now as in 2009 University of Sheffield, NLP There are hundreds of tools for social media analytics ? Most of them are commercial and not freely available ? The research tools tend to focus on specific topics and scenarios, and aren't easily adaptable ? The analysis they do often doesn't go much beyond number crunching, e.g. – look at number of tweets, retweets, favou

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