With today’s news that Prime Minister May will resign on 7th June, it was clearly time to have another look at the stakes for all the potential runners, following our last check in January 2019. Here is today’s graph, tracking back about a month’s worth of data of the cumulative social media conversation (there is[…]

In testing the Dataswarm Analytic Engine on stock analysis and prediction, we are tracking the events leading up to the IPOs of a number of “Unicorns” – Uber, Lyft, AirBnb and Slack – to see if there is anyhing that can be learned from the social (and other) media coverage to predict what the IPO[…]

Chart end of day March  29 – Volume of “analyst” discussion on 4 key unicorns, starting with Lyft S-1 filing on March 1st A number of the better known large private Tech companies (the  “Unicorns”) recently announced they are going to hold Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s) of public shares (or stock) in 2019, in fact[…]

Above – comparing traffic between “No-Deal” and “Revoke” tropes on Twitter, 1.30pm March 22nd. Note the “dip” on the curves on the last day is because we are ony half way through the day and yesterday was a major peak, it will rise as the day progresses and traffic count increases. Below – comparing traffic[…]

Above – Graph and text updated c 10.30 pm In the twisting and turning of Brexit, yesterday (20th March), 9 days before the UK should have left the EU, the Government finally (after weeks of it being clear it was inevitable) sought to delay the date of leaving. The “Remain” grouping were hoping for a[…]

We’ve been looking at what actual Members of Parliament (MPs) are saying about Brexit.  This is the output by all the MPs with Twitter accounts over the late Jan – early March period. This is the first post on this analysis and is about volume. The lines show daily number of tweets and are independent[…]

  Graph shows change in cumulative perception over time for Monzo, Revolut, NatWest and Lloyds.   Over the last few weeks the Challenger bank Revolut has had a very challenging time with its market perception, due to a catalogue of errors. We won’t list their problems here, but there is a good summary on Bloomberg.[…]

  We have now completed our analysis of the pereception of “traditional” high street banks vs new “Challenger” banks. We analysed social media from October 2018 to January 2019 for the “Traditional” banks NatWest and Lloyds, and “Challenger banks” Monzo and Revolut to understand how they were perceived, how it differed, and what lessons could[…]

Retail banking in the UK is supposed to be undergoing a transformation. With relatively limited choice & competition between the main incumbent players, the Government is keen to encourage a new breed of banks, the so called “Challenger Banks”. We used our DataSwarm system to understand the difference in customer perception and usage between the[…]

Today the newsfeeds have been full of a story about the UK Government preparing for martial law in the event of a Brexit No-Deal. So, are we really headed for Martial Law? When we looked at this, it was interesting to note that this story has a large spikes round about once a month  –[…]