Whom should we sense in 'social sensing' - analyzing which users work best for social media now-casting

• Main Authors: AN, Jisun, WEBER, Ingmar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: nowcasting; sampling; social media; Twitter; prediction; unemployment rate; flu; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6584; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7587/viewcontent/s13688_015_0058_9_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Given the ever increasing amount of publicly available social media data, there is growing interest in using online data to study and quantify phenomena in the offline 'real' world. As social media data can be obtained in near real-time and at low cost, it is often used for 'now-casti...