Startup's election predicitons proven

Chicago Inno (Nov. 9) – While pollsters frantically changed their predictions as Donald Trump picked up Florida, Ohio, North Carolina (and eventually traditionally blue Wisconsin and Michigan), Illinois sophomores William Widjaja and Cody Pawlowski weren’t surprised. They predicted he would win in June. The two are cofounders of Tweetsense, a sentiment analysis startup that mines social media and other internet comments to understand public opinion. Since launching their startup last year, they correctly predicted the 2015 Chicago mayoral election and the Brexit vote. And through analyzing the presidential race since June, they correctly predicted that Donald Trump would be the winner.