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NI PoliGraph, a new site for NI politics data…

David Mulholland on January 8, 2021, 7:50 am

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NI PoliGraph is a new site created to provide ongoing data-driven analysis of Northern Irish politics. The site tracks data from multiple sources – Twitter, news outlets, the Assembly, and opinion polls – for the NI political parties, and our MLAs and MPs. What the site contains Twitter is used to some degree by the majority of MLAs and MPs, and although there is a considerable amount of ‘noise’ in the content of what members post or retweet, we can nevertheless …

In the world of knowledge, judgement and choice we can live in a world of data, but no facts.

Mick Fealty on May 4, 2017, 7:48 am

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Whatever your sympathies are (or aren’t) for UK Labour, Tuesday’s Abbott interview on LBC was a particularly hideous event. This gladiatorial pit style of journalism is one reason why Mrs May (because she can) has ruled out meaningful engagement (aka, questions) with the press. There has, as John Lloyd put it in his seminal assay of the relations between the British press and the UK’s politicians What the media is doing to our politics, been “an evident struggle for power between media and government, …