Should We Use the Sample? Analyzing Datasets Sampled from Twitter's Stream API

• Main Authors: WANG, Yazhe, CALLAN, Jamie, ZHENG, Baihua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Twitter API; sample; data mining; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2866; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3866/viewcontent/Should_we_use_sample_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Researchers have begun studying content obtained from microblogging services such as Twitter to address a variety of technological, social, and commercial research questions. The large number of Twitter users and even larger volume of tweets often make it impractical to collect and maintain a comple...