Prediction using social media

See also Social media, Collective intelligence, Stock market prediction, and Time series

Election

• “I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper” – A Balanced Survey on Election Prediction using Twitter Data
• More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior
• Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?
• Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data

Economy

• http://econprediction.eecs.umich.edu/
  • Twitter is surprisingly accurate at predicting unemployment
• Social media fingerprints of unemployment

Stock market

• Coupling News Sentiment with Web Browsing Data Improves Prediction of Intra-Day Price Dynamics

Crime

• Predicting Crime Using Twitter and Kernel Density Estimation

References

• Predicting Crowd Behavior with Big Public Data
  • Can Twitter Predict Major Events Such As Mass Protests?