Election Forecasting Using Individual-Level Social-Media Data: A Methodology

• In Event: Relying on the Polls?

Brief Overview

In this paper we propose a method for forecasting electoral outcomes that integrates, in a novel fashion, the collection, processing and analysis of individual level-data from a variety of social media sources.

Authors

• Raymond Duch, University of Oxford

• Guillermo Usetxe Gonzalez, Nuffield College