Insights and Commentaries
Risk Pulse Monitor
A metric to know what society worries about
The “Pulse of a Nation” is an important metric for governments or other private or public institutions. Knowing what the members of society most worry about or perceive as risks is fundamental information for policy & decision making, ranging from educational programs to hard policy changes to tackle people’s concerns.
The Risk Pulse Monitor (RPM) continuously collects and analyses huge volumes of data from authoritative sources (e.g. news articles) and social media. By collecting “social signals” such as the number of retweets or Facebook shares, RPM measures the effects of events on the worries of social media users and gives us a glimpse of society’s concerns at large.
The RPM Project is funded by IPUR, and headed by the NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (N-CRiPT).
Read more about RPM here.
Prof Mohan Kankanhalli | Dean, School of Computing
Dr Christian von der Weth | Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing
