Social Medial Analytics in the Australian Elections

Our colleagues in Australia and New Zealand posted two interesting blogs showing how SAP Cloud for Social Media Analytics by Netbase gauges voter sentiment for the upcoming Australian elections. This cloud-based solution uses natural language processing to analyze what citizens are saying about candidates in posts on all kinds of social media, such as FacedBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.

http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud/blog/2013/08/20/using-social-media-analytics-to-guage-australias-reaction-to-the-upcoming-federal-election

http://scn.sap.com/community/social-media/blog/2013/08/25/using-social-media-analytics-to-gauge-australias-reaction-to-the-upcoming-federal-election--part-2

What are you seeing you your country?