NMDSI’s Elecurator project is collecting and analyzing posts on major social media sites like Twitter and Reddit as well as on online blogs and forums about the top three issues on voters’ minds in the upcoming elections: the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and race relations. Read this methodology to understand our sentiment tracker.

There are more than 500 million Tweets per day or more than 6,000 Tweets every second. Check out the methodology we used to make it easier to track topics in the Tweets that we studied for our latest report..