Sunday, August 18, 2013

News Patterns Forecast a Disruptive Arab Spring Storm for President Obama

News Patterns is the big picture of relevant news, trends and connections out of overwhelming flows of news and social media.  Presently, the US Politics radar is discovering patterns out of 130,000 monthly articles.

Since my last posting, the topic of Arab Spring has been gaining in relevancy in the US Politics radar.  Arab Spring encompasses topics like Syria, Benghazi and certainly the near civil war in Egypt.  As can be seen in the following radar snap-shot, the topic of Arab Spring has moved into a more potentially disruptive path since a month ago. 

The topic of Arab Spring now has a clear path toward a greater disruptive impact on President Obama since there are few intervening topics between it and the US President at this time.  In fact this disruptive pattern may intensify if journalists and bloggers increasingly connect President Obama with Egypt - a connection that has heretofore been relatively minimal.

 
 
Radar Notes: The most relevant topics win the center of our radar spaces, and are often the primary contestants in markets or politics.  Positions and movements define what a collective news intelligence is telling us in real-time, often correlating closely to polling results.  Topics that are near each other are highly connected or related to each other in the news.  The strength of connections among news topics is more important than the simple counting of article instances.
Live animated radar can be seen here: US Politics Animated News Discovery Radar.

Coincident with the brewing Arab Spring storm, these storms are also being tracked in the US Politics radar:
  • Healthcare (aka Obamacare)  - same intensity since last report on August 9, 2013
  • Economy - dissipated intensity
  • Spending (debt ceiling) - dissipated intensity
  • Jobs - same intensity
  • Arab Spring - growing intensity
  • Spying (NSA) - same intensity
  • Immigration (reform bills) - dissipated intensity
  • IRS - dissipated intensity
Thousands of news journalists, bloggers and social media contributors will continually observe and report on these storms as they develop.  Our news patterning algorithms will capture the collective trends and display them as an early warning system. Daily updates to UP Politics and other News Radars can be found at this Twitter location John Dundas, News Patterns

 

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