Politics and Big Data

Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Politics and Big Data by Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus ISBN: 9781317134138
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: December 19, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus
ISBN: 9781317134138
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: December 19, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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 are difficulties in recording and analyzing often brief, unverified comments while the unequal age, gender, social and racial representation among social media users can produce inaccurate forecasts of final polls. Reviewing the different techniques employed using social media to nowcast and forecast elections, this book assesses its achievements and limitations while presenting a new technique of "sentiment analysis" to improve upon them. The authors carry out a meta-analysis of the existing literature to show the conditions under which social media-based electoral forecasts prove most accurate while new case studies from France, the United States and Italy demonstrate how much more accurate "sentiment analysis" can prove.

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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 are difficulties in recording and analyzing often brief, unverified comments while the unequal age, gender, social and racial representation among social media users can produce inaccurate forecasts of final polls. Reviewing the different techniques employed using social media to nowcast and forecast elections, this book assesses its achievements and limitations while presenting a new technique of "sentiment analysis" to improve upon them. The authors carry out a meta-analysis of the existing literature to show the conditions under which social media-based electoral forecasts prove most accurate while new case studies from France, the United States and Italy demonstrate how much more accurate "sentiment analysis" can prove.

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