Twitter population sample bias and its impact on predictive outcomes: A case study on elections

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1254-1261

  Filho, Renato Miranda ^a,b   Almeida, Jussara M ^b   Pappa, Gisele L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

DATA DISTRIBUTION; EVENT PREDICTION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; OUTCOME PREDICTION; PUBLIC DATA; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SAMPLE BIAS; USER FILTERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84962616145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2808797.2809328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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