Re:A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend ...
by gubatron on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @09:44AM
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can it be used to predict market trends? instead of topics use stock tickers?
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Re:A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend ...
by denzil_correa on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @09:50AM
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There is already some work done on this front [0]. Ruiz et al basically concluded the stock price of a company is directly proportional to the number of discussion topics of that company viz. if there for a company X there are fewer topics under discussion the stock prices would be poor.
[0] http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vagelis/publications/wsdm2012-microbl...