"I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper" - A Balanced Survey on Election Prediction using Twitter Data
@article{GayoAvello2012IWT, title={"I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper" - A Balanced Survey on Election Prediction using Twitter Data}, author={Daniel Gayo-Avello}, journal={ArXiv}, year={2012}, volume={abs/1204.6441} }
Predicting X from Twitter is a popular fad within the Twitter research subculture. [...] Key Result From this review it can be concluded that the predictive power of Twitter regarding elections has been greatly exaggerated, and that hard research problems still lie ahead.Expand Abstract
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