Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de...
by jaysonelliot on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:40PM
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How are you matching Twitter accounts to voter registration?
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Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de...
by jdunck on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:42PM
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We have voter rolls (preprocessed) into elastic search. We do search using data available from twitter (name & location, mostly). We can't match all twitter users who are voters, but we have a very low false-positive rate.
Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de...
by erikrose on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @09:08PM
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And getting lower tomorrow. And then going up in efficacy, while maintaining confidence. There's a ton more we can do with this. :-)
Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de...
by erikrose on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @09:14PM
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Twitter's actually the hardest nut to crack—pretty sparse user info available. Facebook and LinkedIn have a much higher hit rate, but they don't have such easy streams to grab.