Monday, October 3, 2011

Boston Globe visualizes sentiments from social data with The Pulse

Poynter reporting:
The Boston Globe’s media lab has built an interesting new Web feature that measures the positive, negative or neutral sentiments of social media discussion about the Red Sox. (You probably don’t need sentiment analysis to know how people in Boston are feeling about the team today.) The Pulse visualizes the overall feelings over time, the team’s current popularity by state, and the feelings about each player. The page also displays the latest tweets, news stories and Instagram photos related to the team. Overall, it’s a impressive effort by the Globe, working with Mullen Communications and Pointslocal, to rethink how to measure and drive online conversations, and it could be used to track many news subjects. The Globe will launch a similar page for the Patriots soon.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/147671/boston-globe-visualizes-sentiments-from-social-data-with-the-pulse/

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