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The Digital Observatory (DO) is a interdisciplinary team of data scientists, software developers, and academics within Queensland University of Technology. We support research into public discourse on important societal issues.
Notable from the party faithful too. Of course this allows them to attach blame with a figure who is jettisoned. Sky News, Bolt etc., going so far to say it was all Dutton, and LNP should lean more into culture wars (Credlin). Defies believe.
May 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
For people (rightly) skeptical of 'sentiment analysis'. This isn't it, this is full fat LLM processing of tens of thousands of comments, with each comment coded by 56-fine grained topics and the LLM tasked to assess likely political support or opposition based on a comment in a nested thread.
May 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
But by and large, there is a striking reduction in the complexity of language. I was motivated to look into this after seeing the the difference between Trump's earlier and contemporary speech in the source dataset. To show it in absolute terms:
March 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In a sense yes. Lots of impromptu remarks being reported versus events with better planned speech, or speech written by others I expect. This was plotted from the 'interview' subset of the data to avoid the latter, I should have mentioned that.
March 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM