Understanding election candidate approval ratings using social media data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 189-190

  Contractor, Danish ^a   Faruquie, Tanveer A ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Election prediction; Granger causality; Regression; Social media; Social network

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ELECTION PREDICTION; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; GRANGER CAUSALITY; IN-BUILDINGS; PREDICTION MODELLING; REGRESSION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYSTEM PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84893121704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2487883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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