Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media
by
Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional polls. However, there...