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FreeState

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Thu Nov 3, 2016, 12:44 AM Nov 2016

University of Utah software gauges popular sentiment on Twitter, forecasts Clinton win

"Software designed by a team of computer scientists at the University of Utah has spent the past five months reading political tweets — a job for a soulless entity if there ever was one.

Its takeaway: that Hillary Clinton, based on overall Twitter sentiment, is more likely than Donald Trump to win the presidency."

Cool map!

http://www.sltrib.com/news/4536497-155/university-of-utah-software-gauges-popular

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University of Utah software gauges popular sentiment on Twitter, forecasts Clinton win (Original Post) FreeState Nov 2016 OP
K&R.. I believe it! Cha Nov 2016 #1
How do they sift through all the Russian trolls? bluestateguy Nov 2016 #2
K & R Coyotl Nov 2016 #5
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