TOMSK, Mar 21 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) will carry out the analysis of public opinion of Russians under the information received from social networks – for example, in the near future they will start to explore the views of the residents of Tomsk region about the region, the press-service of the university informed.
Earlier it was informed that in 2015 in TSU has been created the unique in the Russian Federation interdisciplinary laboratory of experimental methods and analysis of the big data in public and cognitive sciences. It was planned that it will investigate there behavioural mechanisms (in particular, decision-making process) on the basis of the theory of games and to analyze the data of social networks – as a model of these mechanisms in real time.
"Its (laboratory) employees will be engaged in public opinion researches in social networks: how it is formed, what influence it has on society as a whole and on separate state and private structures. <…> These researches receive today the increasing urgency: the need of various organizations and companies in such analytical information increases", – said in the statement.
According to the university, in the near future for the administration of the Tomsk region scientists will start to investigate the influence of social networks on the political and economic situation in the region. "In cooperation is also interested a number of commercial structures and companies", – emphasized in the university.It is added that researches will unite experts in the field of computer technologies who understand how it is necessary to collect, organize, store the data, and representatives of social studies – sociologists, political scientists, philologists, psychologists. For the technical part of the process on handling and data storage will be used TSU supercomputer.
Earlier it was informed that access to all data, which in large quantities are daily generated in various social networks, to TSU scientists is ready to provide "Kribrum" company.