Voices of victory: A computational focus group framework for tracking opinion shift in real time

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 737-747

  Lin, Yu Ru ^a,b   Margolin, Drew ^b   Keegan, Brian ^a   Lazer, David ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Data driven journalism; Process inference; Public opinion; Real time system; Social meter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; DATA-DRIVEN JOURNALISM; OPINION EXTRACTION; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; PUBLIC OPINIONS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SHIFTING PROCESS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84893030318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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