An algorithm based on Google Trends' data for future prediction. Case study: German elections

IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, IEEE ISSPIT 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 69-73

  Polykalas, Spyros E ^a   Prezerakos, George N ^b   Konidaris, Agisilaos ^a  

^a TEI of Ionian Islands Sound and Musical Instruments Technology   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Elections; Google Trends; Prediction; Search Engines Data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTIONS; FUTURE PREDICTIONS; GERMAN ELECTIONS; GOOGLE TRENDS; HIGH VOLUMES; SEARCH PREFERENCE; SOCIAL EVENTS; STRONG CORRELATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84899115120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2013.6781856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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