CR&DALL associate, Philip Habel, within the School of Social and Political Science, and colleagues within the University of  Glasgow's Urban Big Data Centre and School of Computing Science have been doing social media analysis of the recent UK general election.

This piece recently published in the Washington Post may be of interest to subscribers and gives you a sense of the sorts of possibilities for research using this form of analysis. 

Similar types of data from social media are being collected by our colleagues in the UBDC, but with a focus on learning and education, and these will be complemented with survey, administrative, GPS and life-logging data later in the year. So watch this space!

Reference: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/05/07/tweeting-britains...