Spin Detector for Politicians !
A professor from Queen’s University has developed software that detects the political hoopla that candidates add into their speeches. David Skillicorn from the School of Computing at Queen’s has some interesting findings from the election campaigns of the United States Presidential candidates. This software analyses the political speeches that the candidates deliver in each round of campaigning. The methodology used by Skillicorn involves significant data mining and mathematical concepts. Over weeks of analyses, the software has found that John McCain emerges as the most honest in his speech. Barack Obama twists the most and Hillary Clinton comes in between the two.
We wonder what this software would conclude if tried out in India. Our netas would definitely score very high. Just which side of the scale is quite uncertain! Any takes?