Data Mining

Data Mining for Predictive Social Network Analysis

Thu, 11/26/2015 - 15:55 -- admin

Given this enormous volume of social media data, analysts have come to recognize Twitter as a virtual treasure trove of information for data mining, social network analysis, and information for sensing public opinion trends and groundswells of support for (or opposition to) various political and social initiatives. Twitter Trend Topics in particular are becoming increasingly recognized as a valuable proxy for measuring public opinion.

This article describes the techniques author employed for a proof-of-concept that effectively analyzed Twitter Trend Topics to predict, as a sample test case, regional voting patterns in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election.

AUTHOR: Elder Santos

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