Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structurelessness, quantifiability, and representativeness. Social media data with geotags provide new opportunities to unveil th...

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Main Authors: Zhaoya Gong, Tengteng Cai, Jean-Claude Thill, Scott Hale, Mark Graham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233660