Don't turn social media into another 'Literary Digest' poll < Publications < Daniel Gayo-Avello @ the University of Oviedo

Authors
Gayo-Avello, Daniel

Published in
Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 10 (pp. 121-128). 2011

JCR 2011 impact factor: 1.919

Citations

Don't turn social media into another 'Literary Digest' poll

Abstract

The power to predict outcomes based on Twitter data is greatly exaggerated, especially for political elections.

Slides

I delivered a speech at Yahoo! Research Barcelona based on this paper. These are the companion slides for that talk: