‘In the five days before election night, Professor Bela Stantic analysed 2 million social media comments, from more than half a million unique accounts, relating to 50 key terms, and predicted that Scott Morrison would win’ writes Max Koslowski in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Michael is joined by Professor Stantic, the director of Griffith University's Big Data & Smart Analytics lab to discuss how he was able to predict so accurately against that of what the polls were reporting.