Temporal Analytics: Turning Protest Noise Into Intelligence

October 31st, 2012

Sign wavers should read this.

Via: AOL:

While it’s true, it’s hard to predict what people will do, it’s also increasingly true that people worldwide do emit and discuss their behavior through online social media and that can be monitored and analyzed in nearly real-time.

Companies such as intelligence analysis contractor Recorded Future, which is backed by Google, the CIA, and others for this very reason, offer examples of that on a routine basis. Recorded Future, for instance, tracks protests occurring around the world by extracting references to those events and their locations from online media.

One Response to “Temporal Analytics: Turning Protest Noise Into Intelligence”

  1. RBNZ says:

    Recorded Future offer a free trial if anyone is interested in seeing if it works…

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