TWITTER MOOD PREDICTS THE STOCK MARKET (By Mollen, Mao & Zeng)

[Román Culebro Martínez]

Behavorial economics tell us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavoir and decision-making. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experience mood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlate or even predective of economic indicators? Here we investigate whether measumerents of collective mood states derived from large-scale Twitter feeds are correlated to the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over time...

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