Google searches and twitter mood: nowcasting telecom sales performance

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 87-105

  Bughin, Jacques ^a,b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Google trends; Nowcasting; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938971799     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-015-9096-5     Document Type: Article

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