Big Data
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Twitter elections predictions: the election results…
The results are in since Sunday last weekend and here are the results for the flemish part of Belgium in short: NV-A have won a lot. From almost any side you look at it they improved their positions considerably with respect to last elections. CD&V GROEN have won a lot. They are clearly on the… Continue reading
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Twitter Elections predictions, final installment
Below you’ll find the final graphs I’ll plot. Top 9 for attention: PS SP.A NV-A MR GROEN OPENVLD ECOLO CDH CD&V Other parties got less than 2.5% Top 9 sentiment: SP.A GROEN PS ECOLO MR NV-A OPENVLD MG CDH According to these number you’d expect twitter users to not vote for CD&V at all. If… Continue reading
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Twitter elections prediction: the graphs
Here the positives and the negatives visually for each tracked party. Continue reading
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Twitter Elections experiment implementation
Challenges encountered Some challenges encountered while setting up the processing of the tweets: Dutch sentiment analyzers are not easy to come by, so we needed to translate the tweets prior to sentiment analysis. Limiting tweets to Belgium funnily isn’t as easy as first expected. We defined a location and a range, but this often includes… Continue reading
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Predicting elections with twitter: setting the stage
Introduction I’ll now set the stage so that I can start working on the project. As said some times before already, I’ll keep things simple. So, I apologize up-front if I cut some corners and don’t do everything the scientific way. A vote A positive tweet is considered a ‘vote’. A negative is considered a… Continue reading
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Predict elections with Twitter: preliminary thoughts
Introduction In this post I’ll be setting the stage for the next steps of the project. Data OK, let’s have a look at the main things we can get from Twitter: Tweets (content) user information her “opinion” (vote?) who gets re-tweeted a lot (influence?) Conversations To harvest this, we’ll -at least- need to: “Read” the… Continue reading
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Predicting Elections with Twitter
Before you get on your horses: I read the article about You Can’t Use Twitter to Predict Election Results. I also read the paper from Daniel Gayo-Avello from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in which he states that all past twitter election ‘predictions’ were either not really predictions, or flawed in some way (see p. 2).… Continue reading
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