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We have published several datasets related to the political activities on social networks

We have made public several datasets related to the political activities on social networks. The liberated datasets are:

Political party and candidate tweets for the campaing period of the 2016 Spanish general election. This dataset contains the political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period (10th to 24th of June) of the 2016 Spanish general election. The dataset contains 35,624 tweets. https://github.com/aitoralmeida/spanish_general_election_2016
Political party and candidate tweets for the campaing period of the 2015 Spanish general election. This dataset contains the political party and candidate tweets for the campaign period (4th to 18th of December) of the 2015 Spanish general election. The dataset contains 45,804 tweets. https://github.com/aitoralmeida/spanish_general_election_2015
Twitter dataset for the 2014 European Parliament elections. This dataset contains the tweets for the campaign period (16th to 23th of April) of the 2014 European Parliament election. The dataset contais a total of 47,761 tweets. https://github.com/aitoralmeida/european_parliament_election_2014

Analysis of the European Elections’ campaign

MORElab collaborates with the Regional Manifestos Project to analyze the political programs and the twitter campaign of the European Elections. You can follow the daily analysis of the programs on the blog and the real-time twitter analysis on the data site.The analysis will take place during the whole campaign, from the 8th to the 23th of May .

Open Data Hack Day - Bilbao 2014

On February 21, MORElab organised the third edition of the Open Data Day in Bilbao, at Deusto's University.

The event began with three welcoming talks:

The work done by Euskomedia Fundazioa towards opening and sharing Basque culture, by Iñaki Arrieta
Democracy empowered by open data and digestible data, by Braulio Gómez Fortes (Deusto Social Barometer)
Experience of Bilbao's City Council on Open Data, by Iñigo Robredo (CIMUBISA)

The hackathon started with the presentation of the initiatives described at our wiki, to join people on different working groups:

Visualization and publication as Linked Open Data of the Spanish Government's doctoral thesis dissertations database teseo.
Interactive maps showing historical events.
Linked Data tutorial based on Open Data Euskadi.
Basque chapter of DBpedia template mapping
Visualization and homogeneization of Deusto's Social Barometer data.

The results of the hackathon are reviewed in the event's webpage, and the code is available on GitHub.

We hope to repeat the great experience next year.

What can I do with my Arduino?

Last July 11th, MORElab's members Diego Casado-Mansilla, Juan López-de-Armentia, Juan José Echevarria, Juan Sixto and Adolfo García have led and organized an Arduino Workshop within the 2013 e-ghost series which are hosted by the University of Deusto. This event aimed to present the Arduino as an open platform for easy and accessible prototyping tool to create, design and share pervasive applications from scratch.

Juan Sixto has assisted to the 18th NLDB Conference

The MORElab member Juan Sixto has assisted to the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB2013) held in Salford, UK. He has presented the paper entitled "Analysing Customers Sentiments: An Approach to Opinion Mining and Classification of Online Hotel Reviews" where he presents a system designed to mine client opinions, classify them as positive or negative, and classify them according to the hotel features they belong to.