{"id":1803,"date":"2015-06-22T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2015-06-22T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T23:57:35","slug":"left-right-tweets-analysis-tracks-aussie-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2015\/06\/22\/left-right-tweets-analysis-tracks-aussie-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-right Tweets analysis tracks Aussie MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 13px\/16.89px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">A study of over 50,000 Tweets has shown where Australian politicians \u2018really\u2019 sit on a left-right scale based upon key words, comments and statements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16.89px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">The findings, by Fulbright-Flinders Distinguished Chair in American Political Science,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #a94807\" href=\"http:\/\/development.fulbright.com.au\/index.php\/scholars\/2014-u-s-scholars-students?id=880\">Professor Thaddeus Kousser<\/a>, are partly a result of using 2,500 tweets analysed by research assistants to train computers to develop algorithms which spot \u2018Left\u2019 or \u2018Right\u2019 leaning comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2015\/06\/22\/left-right-tweets-analysis-tracks-aussie-mps\/#sthash.Ian3a0CW.dpuf\">Full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of over 50,000 Tweets has shown where Australian politicians \u2018really\u2019 sit on a left-right scale based upon key words, comments and statements. The findings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}