Predicting The Future With Social Media
by Maurizio Napolitano on Apr 21, 2010
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These slides were used for an internal presentation of the SoNet group - http://sonet.fbk.eu ...
These slides were used for an internal presentation of the SoNet group - http://sonet.fbk.eu
Every week, one member of the SoNet group presents a research papers to the other members. The mentioned paper(s) are hence written by other researchers.
This the abstract of the original paper made by
Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman
In recent years, social media has become ubiquitous and important for social networking and content sharing. And yet, the content that is generated from these websites remains largely untapped. In this paper, we demonstrate how social media content can be used to predict real-world outcomes. In particular, we use the chatter from Twitter.com to forecast box-office revenues for movies. We show that a simple model built from the rate at which tweets are created about particular topics can outperform market-based predictors. We further demonstrate how sentiments extracted from Twitter can be further utilized to improve the forecasting power of social media.
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