On sampling the wisdom of crowds: Random vs. Expert sampling of the twitter stream

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1739-1744

  Ghosh, Saptarshi ^a,b   Sharma, Naveen ^c   Zafar, Muhammad Bilal ^b   Ganguly, Niloy ^a   Bhattacharya, Parantapa ^a,b   Gummadi, Krishna P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Random sampling; Sampling content streams; Sampling from experts; Twitter; Twitter lists

Indexed keywords

CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RANDOM SAMPLING; REALTIME PROCESSING; TWITTER; TWITTER LISTS; WISDOM OF CROWDS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84889606284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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