Introducing LUX2016 from ICG Solutions: A Powerful Social Analytics Platform to Track Sentiment Around Trending Candidates & ...
30 July 2015 - 01:35AM
Business Wire
Using popular social feeds like Twitter and
continuous news monitoring, LUX2016 tracks, compares, and analyzes
trends among political candidates and issues in real-time
Introducing LUX2016, a new solution based on the LUX analytics
platform, that is tailor-made to closely track the candidates and
issues that matter most in the 2016 US federal and state
elections.
LUX2016 allows anyone interested in politics as well as
associations, campaigns, and political organizations to see how
candidates are faring in real-time. The system tracks major issues,
including jobs, immigration, foreign policy, abortion, gun-control
and more by monitoring all incoming tweets and news that mention or
allude to those issues. It then applies proprietary algorithms to
derive and analyze overall sentiment, visually revealing how people
feel about each candidate. Issue tracking happens continuously and
in real-time as new data arrives, so that each candidate can be
monitored in terms of how they’re perceived on each issue.
LUX2016 incorporates data from the Global Database of Events,
Languages, and Tone (GDELT) and Twitter. GDELT curates the world’s
news by scouring the Internet in near real-time, translating
articles written in over 60 languages.
Data from Twitter is also aggregated, scanned and analyzed
nearly instantaneously. Users simply choose single or multiple
candidates or issues and LUX2016 will create a visual analysis of
all Twitter mentions and news stories about that candidate or issue
over a specified period of time.
“LUX2016 is a game changer because it makes political big data
analytics simple enough for anyone to use,” said David Waldrop,
President & CEO at ICG Solutions. “With LUX2016, users can pick
out important details from debates in real-time, predict candidate
controversies, pinpoint candidate strengths and weaknesses, predict
polling data, and even predict how people will vote, all without
needing to know how to code or crunch mounds of data.”
LUX2016 is part of the LUX platform of big data analytics
solutions. LUX makes sense of large amounts of data in motion. It
gathers, aggregates, correlates and alerts users to high-value
discoveries in real time, leading to faster and more thorough
decisions in time-critical situations. It complements, supplements,
enhances and extends current data analytics systems, freeing
developers, IT experts and data scientists to move to more
complicated initiatives within their companies.
LUX features include:
- Near real-time streaming of the world’s
news and select Twitter activity.
- Geospatial, chronological, and timeline
views of incoming data.
- Time-correlated discovery analysis that
combines and correlates Twitter and GDELT data
- Ability to create geographical,
political, and demographic areas of interest for precise targeting
and monitoring of campaign strategies, developments, and
reactions
- Instantaneous data analytics
- A powerful, easy to master user
interface
- Customizable rules incorporating GDELT
and Twitter data
Try out LUX2016 at no cost during the upcoming presidential
debates. For more information and to register for LUX2016 and the
LUX platform, visit: www.icgsolutions.com.
About ICG
ICG is a Maryland-based corporation specializing exclusively in
real-time streaming analytics and the development of the LUX
platform. The core technical team behind ICG was purposefully
recruited and assembled because of each member’s experience with
engineering real-time systems. The team has been together for more
than five years and represents some of the best talent and
expertise in the world for applying technology to the big, fast
moving data problems emerging today. For more information, visit:
www.icgsolutions.com.
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