Tristan Naidoo - Learning from Twitter Data

6 months ago

Episode Notes

AI technology is everywhere in the news nowadays. This week, we hear from Tristan Naidoo, one of the Jameel Institute's PhD students, on how he is leveraging the boom in natural language processing for his own research: using social media data from Twitter, to try and understand how the public reacts to adherence measures like lockdown.

Try sentiment analysis for yourself at https://tweetnlp.org/demo/

Read more about the "Perceptron" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])