News Patterns discovers patterns and trends among overwhelming flows of news and social media.
In my previous post, I wrote that ... "Arab Spring (which includes Syria) is now approaching President Obama, not for uncontrolled events in Egypt, but for US controlled events surrounding Syria. The US decision to prepare for a military strike against Syria became the major news storm over the past week."
Over the two weeks between August 25 and September 8, 2013, President Obama has seen nearly a 100X (100 times) improvement in news trends that politically favor him and his administration. In coarse political terms, US citizenry and news reporting have drastically moved their attention away from challenges to President Obama, to topics and issues potentially more advantageous to Obama. President Obama is now essentially controlling US political discourse. And when he controls it, his adversaries have little public attention to their political interests.
My use of the term "politically favor" is not based on the sentiment of articles. Rather, our measurements of news trends are based on the relevancy of political issues and politicians. In our calculations, the most relevant politicians and issues are the most interconnected with other politicians and issues. These interconnections pull the most relevant news topics to the center of our radars. Less relevant politicians and topics are pushed to the periphery. Therefore, when you look at the following US Politics radar, you will see that US Congress and President Obama are at the radar center.
Radar Notes: The most relevant topics win the center of our radar spaces, and are often the primary contestants in markets or politics. At this time, US Congress and President Obama are at the center of the US Politics radar. 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.
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
In my previous post, I wrote that ... "Arab Spring (which includes Syria) is now approaching President Obama, not for uncontrolled events in Egypt, but for US controlled events surrounding Syria. The US decision to prepare for a military strike against Syria became the major news storm over the past week."
Over the two weeks between August 25 and September 8, 2013, President Obama has seen nearly a 100X (100 times) improvement in news trends that politically favor him and his administration. In coarse political terms, US citizenry and news reporting have drastically moved their attention away from challenges to President Obama, to topics and issues potentially more advantageous to Obama. President Obama is now essentially controlling US political discourse. And when he controls it, his adversaries have little public attention to their political interests.
My use of the term "politically favor" is not based on the sentiment of articles. Rather, our measurements of news trends are based on the relevancy of political issues and politicians. In our calculations, the most relevant politicians and issues are the most interconnected with other politicians and issues. These interconnections pull the most relevant news topics to the center of our radars. Less relevant politicians and topics are pushed to the periphery. Therefore, when you look at the following US Politics radar, you will see that US Congress and President Obama are at the radar center.
Live animated radar can be seen here: US Politics Animated News Discovery Radar.
President Obama Completely Changed Political News Trends -
between August 25 and September 8, 2013
- In August, President Obama was faced with these politically challenging issues: Healthcare implementations, Spending (aka the debt limit), Arab Spring (as in near Egyptian civil war and Benghazi consulate attack), Jobs, Economy, IRS scandal, Immigration Reform, and NSA Spying.
- Nerve gas attacks in Syria gave President Obama an opportunity to refocus US political news attention.
- Elevation of Syria/Nerve Gas topic with threatened military action (Security topic) acutely refocused news trends (aka public attention) to a new version of Arab Spring (Syria, not Egypt or Benghazi) while stripping Security topic away from NSA spying issue. In regard to the US Politics radar, the Arab Spring and Security topics catapulted toward Obama at the center of the radar. Our news patterning algorithms calculated a 10X positive move for President Obama with the ascendancy of these two topics.
- With so much news and political energy being spent on Syria and Security, the politically challenging issues to President Obama greatly lost news relevancy and public attention. In the above US Politics radar, see the relevancy decay of Healthcare, Spending, Immigration, Jobs, Economy, NSA Spying, and IRS targeting. These topics are seen losing political relevancy in the US Politics radar as they drifted to the radar periphery over the past two weeks. Our news patterning algorithms calculated a 10X positive realignment for President Obama with the decay of these topics.
- The net of the 10X increase due to Syrian initiatives, multiplied by a helpful 10X decay in challenging news topics gives President Obama a 100X improvement in current political news trends.
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