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Electoral and political moods online

The upcoming elections have led some agencies to bring new and interesting on-line analysis tools for electoral and political mood in life.

"The German political Web" is optional radar in a very interesting application dar. Through a variety of parameters can be analyzed links between political websites:

The map visualizes the political discourse taking place in Germany online using (node) points and lines. Each point represents a webpage. The connecting lines represent hyperlinks between Web pages. Both the size of the points and the number of lines will depend on several parameters (see settings below). The dark gray shaded areas on the map indicate a high link density.

Besides the already mentioned here, Twitter analysis whispers party, there is another tool that deals with Twitter Trends: Wahlgetwitter. The site wants to analyze the political mood in the Twitter network:

Here, all contributions will be evaluated on Twitter.com containing) a hash (Hashtag, (the name of a party and a guest sign + or -). Example: If # CDU at the end of Twitter's contribution, it is regarded as negative. This results in a political mood in real time.

Links:

• Wahlgetwitter
• Whispers Party
• either radar

via Spreeblick