Latest KDnuggets News 12:n11, (May 10, 2012) Features:
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- Election prediction using Twitter Data: it does not work
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Most damning is the lack of a single actual prediction (using Twitter). Every analysis on elections so far has been done after the fact. "I have not found a single paper predicting a future result," says Gayo-Avello.
www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27812/