Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
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Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
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Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#2Where's the "predictive" part? Just visualizing twitter networks isn't actually a prediction.
Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#3actually Google Trends predicted it:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary...
it predicted obama as well in 2012
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...
Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#4Hindsight is 20/20
Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#5actually Google Trends predicted it: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary... it predicted obama as well in 2012 https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...
Interesting how Hillary is the only one who was referred to by first name. "Vote for Clinton" didn't register as much as "Vote for Hillary"
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Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#7actually Google Trends predicted it: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary... it predicted obama as well in 2012 https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...
Interesting how Hillary is the only one who was referred to by first name. "Vote for Clinton" didn't register as much as "Vote for Hillary"
maybe it was to differentiate her from bill clinton?
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#8How do these people predict the electorial college?
Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#9actually Google Trends predicted it: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary... it predicted obama as well in 2012 https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...
Interesting how Hillary is the only one who was referred to by first name. "Vote for Clinton" didn't register as much as "Vote for Hillary"
She's the only one that had a spouse that was formerly President and or otherwise very famous. Hillary's campaign and supporters heavily marketed her by first name rather than last name to try to bolster her own political identity.
Re: Twitter May Have Predicted the Election
#10Where's the "predictive" part? Just visualizing twitter networks isn't actually a prediction.
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