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Coalition-Cocktail – Hacking the Elections @ Engagor

Last weekend, Engagor organised their hacktheelections hackaton. The Datablend team (Quentin, Stijn and Davy) was joined by Marc Broos, Tim Coene and Josbert van de Zande with one goal in mind: trying to visualise the (pre-arranged?) political coalition and, if possible, also predict the formation-period. Technically, we extracted over 160K tweets through the Engagor API.

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