Early warning signals of abrupt changes in social opinion by mining online discussion forums

• Main Author: Pong, Jonathan Weijie
• Other Authors: Cheong Siew Ann
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75454
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ability to conduct Social sensing to measure dissent in a democratic country is important as it allows governments to improve in areas they are currently lacking. In this paper, we study the theory of critical transitions and its application to major events in sociopolitical systems (such as e...