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Predic'ng
 Primaries
 Using
 
Twi1er
 

Mo'va'on
 
 
•  Polling
 is
 much
 less
 accurate
 than
 it
 used
 to
 be
 
 
•  Twi1er
 can
 be
 a
 valuable
 indica'on
 of
 public
 
opinion
 

Goal
 
 
 
•  Using
 tweets
 about
 candidates,
 build
 a
 model
 
that
 is
 able
 to
 predict
 how
 a
 candidate
 will
 do
 
in
 a
 primary
 elec'on
 

How


 
 

•  Mine
 twi1er
 
–  Twi1er
 API
 is
 fairly
 straight
 forward
 to
 access
 
–  Pull
 down
 tweets
 related
 to
 candidates,
 and
 store
 
them
 in
 mongo
 Data
 Base
 

•  Analyze
 Tweets
 for
 sen'ment
 
•  Many
 different
 packages
 will
 do
 this,
 or
 I
 can
 write
 
my
 own
 model
 

 


 

How(cont.)
 
•  Build
 Model
 
–  Build
 a
 model
 using
 sen'ment
 labeled
 tweets
 and
 
other
 meta
 data(
 #
 of
 followers,
 loca'on,
 ect.)
 

•  Test
 Model
 
–  Test
 the
 model
 and
 refine
 it
 to
 be1er
 match
 
results
 as
 they
 come
 in
 

 

 
 

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