ElectionTracker

In my previous post I alluded to Germinait's platform for the analyses of social media and said that we were tracking the Indian Elections. I am thrilled to let you know that ElectionTracker is now ready and available to all at http://electiontracker.germinait.com.

ElectionTracker is an AI product that is focused on analysing what is being said in Indian newspapers and blogs about our political parties and their politics. What ElectionTracker does is send out its crawlers to fetch articles from online news sites and blogs. It then churns these articles through it's NLP algorithms which first detect with great accuracy whether those articles are relevant to the elections or not. For all the relevant articles, the AI programs then determine which party is being referred, what topics are being discussed and whether the article's sentiment is for or against that party.

Once all this analysis is completed the analysis results are shown in the form of intuitive trend graphs, pie charts, and tag clouds that depict online buzz. The results can be quite interesting and viewers are invited to do their own analysis and come to their own conclusions. ElectionTracker also calculates the Germinait Party Index which measures how positively each of the parties are being referred to by bloggers.

The thing that makes me proudest about ElectionTracker is how we managed to pull this all together in just about 4 weeks starting from conceiving the idea to actually making it "live". Of course, we have been working on the underlying AI algorithms for months. All of this was possible only because of the never-say-die spirit demonstrated by the team to work long focused hours to grapple new technologies for distributed storage and distributed computation. Hats off to you all!

In the next few weeks you will see a lot of new features and improvements being made to ElectionTracker. Please keep come back to check out ElectionTracker and let us know what you think.