Leveraging candidate popularity on Twitter to predict election outcome

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, SNA-KDD 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gaurav, Manish ^a   Kumar, Anoop ^a   Srivastava, Amit ^a   Miller, Scott ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Election prediction; Latin America; Paraguay; Twitter; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECUADOR; ELECTION PREDICTION; LATIN AMERICA; PARAGUAY; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; PREDICTIVE POWER; SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; TWITTER; VENEZUELA;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84890582527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2501025.2501038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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