Brexit? Analyzing Opinion on the UK-EU Referendum within Twitter
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We present a demonstrator that visualizes the Twittersphere debate on whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union. Data is collected using three strategies: hashtag search terms, extraction from the full stream and following specific users. The demonstrator can be used to show the different discussion topics identified by the different search strategies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016