  In this paper we illustrate the use of Data Science techniques to analyse
complex human communication. In particular, we consider tweets from leaders of
political parties as a dynamical proxy to political programmes and ideas. We
also study the temporal evolution of their contents as a reaction to specific
events. We analyse levels of positive and negative sentiment in the tweets
using new tools adapted to social media. We also train an Artificial
Intelligence to recognise the political affiliation of a tweet. The AI is able
to predict the origin of the tweet with a precision in the range of 71-75\%,
and the political leaning (left or right) with a precision of around 90\%. This
study is meant to be viewed as a proof-of-concept of interdisciplinary nature,
at the interface between Data Science and political analysis.
