Trending topics on Twitter improve the prediction of Google hot queries

Proceedings - SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 39-44

  Giummolè, Federica ^a   Orlando, Salvatore ^a   Tolomei, Gabriele ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Google; Hot trends; Social network analysis; Time series analysis; Time series regression; Trending topics; Twitter

Indexed keywords

GOOGLE; HOT TRENDS; TIME-SERIES REGRESSION; TRENDING TOPICS; TWITTER;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893610776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2013.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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