How (Not) to predict elections

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 165-171

  Metaxas, Panagiotis T ^a   Mustafaraj, Eni ^a   Gayo Avello, Daniel ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS; DATA VOLUME; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; PREDICTIVE POWER; RESEARCH METHODS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FORECASTING;

EID: 84856168244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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