Multi-cycle forecasting of congressional elections with social media

PLEAD 2013 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Politics, Elections and Data, Co-located with CIKM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-29

  Huberty, Mark Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

elections; polling; social media

Indexed keywords

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS; ELECTION FORECAST; ELECTIONS; FORECASTING METHODS; MULTI-CYCLE; POLLING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FORECASTING;

EID: 84888192987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2508436.2508439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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