In 2009, only 5% of Germans cited immigration as the core concern facing their country, compared to 8% in Greece and 6% in Spain. In 2014, this jumped to a staggering 37% in Germany, compared to 6% in Greece and 3% in Spain. Rising concerns about immigration now brings public opinion in Germany more inContinue reading “Europe Has More to Fear From German Nationalism than the Mediterranean Left”
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Report: Extracting the Political Signal from the Online Noise: A workshop on mining online content and political networks
Today we had an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from political science and data analytics interested in using data-analytics methods to extract information of interest from the mass of online sources now available about politics. The workshop was co-organised by Dr. James P. Cross of the Dublin European Institute and Dr. Derek Greene of the Insight CentreContinue reading “Report: Extracting the Political Signal from the Online Noise: A workshop on mining online content and political networks”
