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After two years of planning and construction, the Dalhousie Social Media Lab officially opened its doors on Friday. The lab was founded in 2010 by Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd and is located at the School of Information Management in the Faculty of Management.

Equipment in the new lab includes high-performance computing servers, touch-enabled all-in-one computers, tablets and a new giant “Magic Wall”, a 96″ multi-touch video wall, perfectly designed for analyzing and visualizing “big data” from social media. This large screen will allow researchers to visualize large-scale social networks made up of millions of actors on a single screen and discover hidden patterns and connections in the data.

Watch the CTV news clip and learn more about the lab at its website.