Politics And Big Data: Nowcasting And Forecasting Elections With Social Media

The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. 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, Italy and the United States demonstrate how much more accurate 'sentiment Analysis' can prove.

• • Author: Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Maria Iacus
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jan 09, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 188 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472466667
• • ISBN-13: 9781472466662