The predictive power of online chatter

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 78-87

  Gruhl, Daniel ^a   Guha, R ^b   Kumar, Ravi ^a   Novak, Jasmine ^a   Tomkins, Andrew ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Prediction; Sales rank; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; PREDICTION; SALES RANK;

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; QUERY LANGUAGES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 32344449298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1081870.1081883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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