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News mining might have predicted Arab Spring

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Signs of impending social and political change may lie hidden in a sea of news reports.

You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of news reportage can reveal the possibility of future crises well before they happen.

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Ball, P. News mining might have predicted Arab Spring. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.532

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