Data-driven political science

WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 777-778

  Weber, Ingmar ^a   Popescu, Ana Maria ^b   Pennacchiotti, Marco ^c  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

^b Pinfluencer   (United States)

^c EBAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; election prediction; political science

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; BIG DATUM; ONLINE DATA; POLITICAL CAMPAIGN; POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; POLITICAL SCIENCE; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH DOMAINS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATE OF THE ART;

DATA MINING; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84874244650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2433396.2433498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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