Methodologies and tools for big data analysis via text mining and geo-social characterization aiming to opinion extraction, trend detection and predictive analysis

D6.1 will describe the crowdsourcing and social data model for the analysis of policies. It will define the necessary methodology to filter, analyze and extract relevant information that would reflect the opinion of the society with regard to the water related regions. D6.1 will also propose extensive methodology and algorithms to reveal sentiments, opinions, and relevant trends from the data sources. It will specify the predictive models for assessing the social consequences of policy implementation.