What happened in 2018 ? What do you remember? Analyzing over 2,000 press reports each month can help answer that question. But even with the assistance of advanced computer programs, how do you summarize a whole year? How do you choose a succinct and meaningful title for this work? Donald Trump provided us with a clear and concice answer by declaring publicly that he was a "very stable genius". Indeed, 2018 was the year of the "very stable genius" and it's presented and analyzed here month by month, using both our computer method and our human analysis of the same set of data from a representative sampling system of international media. And Yes, the key word was "Trump".
Beginning with the year 2006, this series of books has successively analyzed representative samples of the English-language world press covering major national and international conflits. We use the method of co-occurence of key words in texts to form statistically consistent clusters of key words that identify texts associated with specific topics. The method also allows you to follow these clusters and their texts over time to see if they disappear or become more central or more dense. There are surprises at every turn. Obama and Trump, in a major instance early in their mandates, experienced almost the same unrecognized political failure
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