SENSEI predicts Brexit Outcome | Sensei FP7 Project

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SENSEI predicts Brexit Outcome

Monitoring Brexit – The Story


In the month preceding the referendum date, SENSEI’s system monitored millions of social media conversations to predict the outcome of the referendum.
Every day, more than 300 000 posts across multilingual media sources on the topic of the UK EU Referendum are captured and automatically analysed by the SENSEI technology. 
Most exit polls were showing confidence the REMAIN side would prevail. In contrast, the SENSEI system hit with very high accuracy the final outcome.

Monitoring BREXIT – What Happened

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 610916 – SENSEI.