Don't turn social media into another 'Literary Digest' poll
- 1 October 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 54 (10) , 121-128
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2001269.2001297
Abstract
The power to predict outcomes based on Twitter data is greatly exaggerated, especially for political elections.Keywords
Funding Information
- University of Oviedo (UNOV-09-RENOV-MB-2)
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