Catching fire via 'likes': Inferring topic preferences of Trump followers on Twitter

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 719-722

  Wang, Yu ^a   Luo, Jiebo ^b   Niemi, Richard ^a   Li, Yuncheng ^b   Hu, Tianran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CATCHING FIRE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; TOPIC PREFERENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84979501923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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