Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models

This aim of this article is to explore the potential use of Wikipedia page view data for predicting electoral results. Responding to previous critiques of work using socially generated data to predict elections, which have argued that these predictions take place without any understanding of the mec...

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Main Authors: Yasseri, T, Bright, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2016