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Political research is tough.

Gaining a comprehensive understanding of positions on legislation or a particular topic is tough. Employing researchers to establish this is time-consuming, expensive, and prone to subjective error. The opinion of the general public and individual politicians changes frequently for a variety of reasons and keeping track of the context to those changes is even more challenging. How do you solve the core political research issues below?

  • Need to speed up the research process from weeks to hours
  • Track public, political and media reaction to fast moving political events and interventions
  • Quickly understand who supports and who opposes a position
  • Keep on top of changes daily

A new opportunity from next-generation AI technology.

Deviance has unparalleled opinion intelligence capabilities based on sophisticated artificial intelligence technology and techniques originating in forensic linguistics. The technology was first designed for use by governments globally to understand public reaction to their interventions during the COVID19 pandemic and other political events by tracking online communities identified as representative during initial research. Core to Deviance’s philosophy is the ability to discover change and the new things you wouldn’t know to search for in huge language sources:

  • Uncover new themes, topics, personalities, locations, and organisations in discussions
  • Accurately determine the sentiment attached to these entities
  • See how that sentiment is changing and get fast intelligence on the context

Solve the political research headache.

This same bleeding-edge technology is now applied to deliver intelligence on global political positions and events, delivering detailed analysis of sentiment and early alerting of changes in opinion. Data is sourced from a rich mix of official political records, online communities, and news media sites. The exact mix is customised for each use case. Some examples are:

  • Online communities globally
  • Hansard in England, Official Report in Scotland, and Record of Proceedings in Wales
  • The Congressional Record in the US
  • 100s of media sources globally

Some examples of how Deviance is successfully enabling clients to act decisively:

  • Early alerting of opinion changes among the general public
  • Identify support and opposition for a particular topic or Bill in a fraction of the time taken by manual approaches
  • Easily identify the individuals most likely to change
  • Early alerting when positions change

Contact Deviance through their website here for more information.