Validation of Twitter opinion trends with national polling aggregates: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump

Measuring and forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is a long-standing goal of big-data analytics. Despite the large amount of work addressing this question, there has been no clear validation of online social media opinion trend with traditional surveys. Here we develop a method to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bovet, A, Morone, F, Makse, HA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2018