Listening to the news: Big data for consumer sentiment analysis

Video recording of Hanjo Odendaal's presentation, entitled "Listening to the news: Big data for consumer sentiment analysis" presented at SatRday Cape Town, UCT, 17 March 2018

Abstract:

Currently we are researching on how to incorporate a new form of information, textual data, into the already existing mixed-frequency econometric framework. Can we use alternative secondary data sources to construct a consumer sentiment index that captures perceived economic outlook. I believe it so