INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE

Analysis on public sentiment, regulatory trends, persuasion, and campaigns.

How many parties does the United States REALLY have?

How many parties does the United States REALLY have?

In the email bag "Alex, I contend we have a 3 party system now: Democrats, Traditional Republicans, and the Tea Party/MAGA/Hard right. These three parties rarely agree on anything. Prove me wrong and write it up online!" As always, your wish is my command. As you read...

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The Power of Memes in Persuasion and Public Relations

The Power of Memes in Persuasion and Public Relations

I was recently gifted a signed first edition of Kermit Roosevelt's book "Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran".  It is a first-hand account of the CIA's involvement in the coup in Iran.    I have been thinking about the power of memes and...

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Chamber Pulse Insider Economic Survey Panel

Chamber Pulse Economic Insider Survey Panel Ozean Media recently published a study through it's sister entity, Chamber Pulse, which surveys Chamber of Commerce executives across the Southeast United States. A copy of the study is posted below. You can view the the...

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Science, Doubt, and Hucksters

Science, Doubt, and Hucksters

This weekend I took my son to see the movie Oppenheimer.  Our car-ride discussion centered around the process the scientists went through and how vicious their disagreements turned.   My son was floored by how ‘teammates’ were so ‘adversarial.’  I...

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2023 Florida Legislature and Twitter Use

2023 Florida Legislature and Twitter Use

Methodology Given a specified time interval (March 5 – May 7 or Florida Session’ sine die whichever is later) and a list of Twitter handles, the algorithm assigns a tailored weighting to variables including tweets, retweets replies, follower count, following count,...

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The @Award and Twitter’s API

The @Award and Twitter’s API

It was fun while it lasted, but our Florida Legislature Tweet Tracker is coming to an end. With one week left in the regular session of Florida's legislature, Ozean was notified that Twitter has made changes to its API that have drastically restricted third-party...

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Florida 2022 Election for Governor: Geographic Divide

Florida 2022 Election for Governor: Geographic Divide

The results by precinct results have been released for Florida.  Precincts are the smallest unit of analysis that we have election results, and I find them interesting. So what does the data tell us? In this post, we will only explore the results for Governor’s race...

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