Petition growth and success rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street website

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'13

Volumn volume, Issue , 2013, Pages 132-138

  Hale, Scott A ^a   Margetts, Helen ^a   Yasseri, Taha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Bursty growth; Leptokurtic; Mobilization; Petition; Trace data

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; WEBSITES;

BIG DATUM; LEPTOKURTIC; MOBILIZATION; PETITION; TRACE DATA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84883087803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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