Limits of Electoral Predictions Using Twitter

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 490-493

  Gayo Avello, Daniel ^a   Metaxas, Panagiotis T ^b   Mustafaraj, Eni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BLACK BOXES; CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; PREDICTIVE POWER; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85157210699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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