Griffith’s Stantic is a data, not astrology, star

Griffith U is rightly proud of Bela Stantic, who did what the pollsters didn’t – analysed the data and correctly predicted the federal election result.

Professor Stantic is head of the School of Information and Communication Technology and a whiz at big data analysis – he predicted Trump’s win and Brexit, by “crunching millions of Tweets, that not only analysed the figures broadly but also the underlying targets and sentiment within each one.”

So what possessed Griffith U to headline their Stantic profile, “Nostradamus of the 21st Century” ? Data analysis isn’t astrology.