Can Twitter predict the future?
The idea of tapping web-based data to build a real-time measure of users’ emotions and preferences is not new. Nor is that of using the results to predict their behaviour. Interest in internet forecasting was sparked by a paper published in 2009 by Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist. He found that the peaks and troughs in the volume of Google searches for certain products, such as cars and holidays, preceded fluctuations in sales of those products. Other researchers have shown that searches for job-related terms are a good predictor of unemployment rates and that mentions of political candidates on Twitter correlate with electoral outcomes.
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XVII reunión del FTF: Tecnologías Sociales
Summary report on the XVII FTF meeting on Social Technologies.
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September 23, 2009 - Arganda Del Rey
Innovation and Web 2.0
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March 11, 2008 - Seville
Sevilla - Web 2.0: Business Opportunities from Social Networks
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February 07, 2008 - Bilbao
Bilbao - Web 2.0: Business Opportunities from Social Networks
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Presentación Curso de Innovación 360ª 2011-2012 en la USC
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