What is it about?
This paper investigates how Twitter data is used for a range of different applications, including finding sources of food poisoning, understanding political events and finding potential fraud. In addition information from Twitter is being used to predict sports events, the stock market, movie sales and other items.
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Why is it important?
This paper reviews a number of Twitter mining applications and methodological issues. In addition, the paper reviews those aspects of Twitter that can be mined for potential knowledge.
Perspectives
Twitter mining is exploding because of the large amounts of data available. This paper illustrates some of the kinds of applications that previous researchers have attacked and investigates some potential other problems that can be analyzed.
Daniel E. O'Leary
University of Southern California
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This page is a summary of: Twitter Mining for Discovery, Prediction and Causality: Applications and Methodologies, Intelligent Systems in Accounting Finance & Management, July 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/isaf.1376.
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