YES or NO: Predicting the 2015 GReferendum results using Google Trends

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 109, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-5

  Mavragani, Amaryllis ^a   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Big Data; Elections; Google Trends; Internet behavior; Predictions; Referendum

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; FORECASTING;

ELECTIONS; GOOGLE TRENDS; INTERNET BEHAVIORS; PREDICTION TOOLS; REFERENDUM; SEARCH TERMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ELECTION; INTERNET; PREDICTION; REFERENDUM; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84969262146     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.04.028     Document Type: Article

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