BACKGROUND Demographers are increasingly interested in connecting demographic behaviour and trends with ‘soft’ measures, i.e., complementary information on attitudes, values, feelings, and intentions.

If you’ve spent any time on Twitter, you know that tweets can be snarky, informative, nonsensical, hilarious, and sometimes provocative. This is the “sentiment” of the Twittersphere. What Twitter does ...

Planet Money tries to make a program that reads Donald Trump's tweets and then trades stocks. The first step is training the program to interpret the tweets using something called sentiment analysis.

It’s been five months since billionaire Elon Musk became the owner and CEO of Twitter. A new analysis by the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches the architecture of ...