Evaluando Twitter como indicador de opinión pública: una mirada al arribo de Bachelet a la presidencial chilena 2013
Abstract
This work analyses if Twitter is an effective public opinion indicator. It uses a dataset that gathers up two weeks activity of the main users that interact upon the arrival of Michelle Bachelet last march 2013 for the Chilean presidential election. It presents a general description of the case, sentiment analysis, and social network analysis. It is discovered that most messages were not favourable to the candidate, and it is detected a cluster of users that express messages against her.
Bastián González-Bustamante
Post-doctoral Researcher
Post-doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science and a lecturer in Governance and Development at the Institute of Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands. Lecturer at the School of Public Administration at Universidad Diego Portales and Research Associate in Training Data Lab, Chile.