Professor Bela Stantic at Griffith University's Big Data and Smart Analytics Lab is pioneering some truly ground-breaking advances in this fast-moving field.

This interview discusses the highlights of Prof Stantic's work which has earned him an enviable reputation for predictive accuracy. He correctly called the outcome of the last Australian Federal election contrary to the pollsters and public opinion. He also predicted not only the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election and Brexit but also no less than 48 of the 50 US State elections that were also held around the same time.

Bela's approach takes publicly accessible social media data from the likes of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, and by using a combination of sentiment analysis, location data and the vocabulary that people use, he is able to arrive at remarkably accurate predictions.

Interviewer: David Tuffley

Recorded & Edited: David Tuffley