Google Trends Electionland

Re:Google Trends Electionland by idm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:18AM (#12901442)

Sortof OT: I was also interested in election trends. While Google is focusing on real-time search trends regarding voting, I looked at meme trends leading up to the election. There are interesting trends in the amount of attention different candidate memes received over time. It will be interesting to see whether the attention received by candidates is translated into votes, today.

Here's the working paper: http://iandennismiller.github.io/election-memes

EDIT: quick link to viz: http://imgur.com/S6nHNLT

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by nhebb on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:38AM (#12901631)

They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by idm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:44AM (#12901694)

A good portion of reddit's memes are hosted on imgur, which was included in the dataset, so there's that.

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by hannipede on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:25PM (#12903162)

Too many CTR shills on reddit

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by jrockway on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:18PM (#12903561)

How do you distinguish between legitimate Hillary supporters, and CTR shills?

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by gmisra on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:39AM (#12901643)

And, all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes

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Re:Google Trends Electionland by idm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:43AM (#12901683)

Totally - it's the first time I've messed with the platform and I can see some real value there!

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