Exploring the political pulse of a country using data science tools

Exploring the political pulse of a country using data science tools

In this paper we illustrate the use of Data Science techniques to analyse complex human communication. In particular, we consider tweets from leaders of political parties as a dynamical proxy to political programmes and ideas. We also study the temporal evolution of their contents as a reaction to s...

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