Penn State Great Valley’s data lab tracks presidential candidates, more

Penn State Great Valley professors Adrian Barb and Robin Qiu use Visualizing Public Opinions to score tweets about 2016 presidential candidates. The system charts the percentage of positive tweets by time and candidate. Image: Penn State

Penn State Great Valley professors Adrian Barb and Robin Qiu use Visualizing Public Opinions to score tweets about 2016 presidential candidates. The system charts the percentage of positive tweets by time and candidate.
Image: Penn State

On the bottom floor of Penn State Great Valley’s main building, engineering professors Adrian Barb and Robin Qiu can monitor what’s being tweeted across the world in real time. That’s because Barb and Qiu created Penn State Great Valley’s own big data lab, which provides students and local industries with access to a variety of tools and systems.

Most recently, Barb and Qiu used a tool called Visualizing Public Opinions to score tweets about 2016 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. Visualizing Public Opinions tracks tweets worldwide and immediately provides a sentiment analysis of the international dialogue.

Read more at Patch.

Skip to toolbar