This week, we discuss: Pentagon Tech Chief Quits Housing – Millions of Private Renters Suffering Chilean President Threatened with Impeachment Pentagon Tech Chief quits – claims US cybersecurity is too weak What Happened? The Pentagon’s first software chief, Nicolas Chaillan, has left his position, citing frustrations over the US’s lack of preparedness for internet warfare.…
In this week’s digital digest we look at BT’s partnership with Rio Ferdinand and Marcus Rashford, and the DVLA’s digital licence plans. We then take a look at big tech as Facebook changes the way it measures accounts, Twitter rolls out a ‘soft-block’ feature and Netflix is sued by ISP provider following the success of…
This week, we discuss: ScotRail Plan Chaotic Strikes During COP26 Facebook Under Fire Mounting Military Tensions Between China and Taiwan ScotRail Plan Chaotic Strikes During COP26 What Happened? ScotRail engineers are planning to strike during the Glasgow climate summit. A twenty-four-hour stoppage is planned for the 1st and 2nd of November, with global leaders and…
As the Conservative Party Conference concluded, the data team at Trafalgar Strategy looked back at the Prime Minister and Chancellor’s keynote speeches, by tracking the Twitter sentiment expressed during both speeches to understand what Twitter users either liked or disliked. The results are visualised below. Each graph represents a minute-by-minute average sentiment score for each…
With the Conservative Party conference almost wrapped up, the data team at Trafalgar Strategy took a look back at the sentiment expressed on Twitter towards Cabinet Ministers. First off, the Prime Minister overwhelmingly dominated the Twitter-sphere appearing in over half of all sampled tweets (410k) – yet the Home Secretary Priti Patel pipped the Chancellor…
In this week’s Digital Digest, we look at the Met Police’s investment in facial recognition tech, and the UK Governments plans to launch a digital currency. We then look at big tech as Facebook comes under fire following an internal leak, TikTok hits 1 billion users, and iPhone users are urged to remove Visa from…
This week, we discuss: The first female Prime Minister in the Arab World A fortuitous victory for the SDP in Germany Japan’s newest Prime Minister The first female Prime Minister in the Arab World What happened? Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has named the first female prime minister in the country’s history. Najla Bouden Romdhane’s appointment…
As pundits poured over Starmer’s maiden in-person speech to the Labour Party conference, our data team trawled through the reactions on social media. Over 150k tweets were analysed and then visualised, see above. In the graph, each point represents a Twitter account and its size is based on engagement levels. Overall, Keir Starmer can start…
Earlier today Keir Starmer gave his first in-person speech to the Labour Party conference, in what was billed by many in the media as a make or break moment for the Leader of the Opposition in light of Labour’s eternal internal strife. Here are our four key takeaways: (1) An attempt to recalibrate Woven throughout…
Our data team analysed articles in local media outlets distributed across Red Wall constituencies. We looked at everything published and then shared on social media since the Conference kicked off. To understand what drove engagement, articles were thematically mapped along with their corresponding likes, retweets and comments — enabling our data team to visualise what…
