Big data and sentiment analysis can do amazing things, whether it’s in the enterprise or in the quest to create compelling applications and experiences for consumers. But can technology trends such as these actually predict major real-world events?
As sci-fi as it may sound, that’s exactly what researcher Kalev Leetaru was able to accomplish with a little help from SGI’s Altix UV supercomputer packing 8.2 teraflops of processing power. Leetaru, a digital media analytics expert at the University of Illinois, wrote software that can scan over 100 million news articles and uses sentiment analysis, text geocoding and predictive analytics to determine when political upheaval will go from rowdy to revolutionary.
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