Tweets and votes: A study of the 2011 Singapore General Election

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2583-2591

  Skoric, Marko ^a   Poor, Nathaniel ^b   Achananuparp, Palakorn ^c   Lim, Ee Peng ^c   Jiang, Jing ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Singapore Management University ^*

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS; GENERAL ELECTIONS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; NATIONAL LEVEL; POLITICAL PARTIES; PREDICTIVE POWER; PUBLIC OPINIONS; SINGAPORE;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84857926060     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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