Online and social media data as an imperfect continuous panel survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Diaz, Fernando ^a   Gamon, Michael ^a   Hofman, Jake M ^a   Kiciman, Emre ^a   Rothschild, David ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; POLITICS; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953791700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145406     Document Type: Article

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