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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 t

by idm 10y ago

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 http://iandennismiller.github.io/election-memes EDIT: quick link to viz: http://imgur.com/S6nHNLT http://imgur.com/S6nHNLT

nhebb 10y ago
They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.
- idm 10y ago
  A good portion of reddit's memes are hosted on imgur, which was included in the dataset, so there's that.
- hannipede 10y ago
  Too many CTR shills on reddit
  - jrockway 10y ago
    How do you distinguish between legitimate Hillary supporters, and CTR shills?
gmisra 10y ago
And, all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes
- idm 10y ago
  Totally - it's the first time I've messed with the platform and I can see some real value there!