Exploring sentiment in social media and official statistics: A general framework

Sulis Emilio;Lai Mirko;Vinai Manuela;Sanguinetti Manuela

2015-01-01

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Abstract

The integration between official statistics and social media data is a challenging topic. This contribution aims to present a recentlydesigned framework to compare sentiment analysis on social media content with social and economic data. Such framework-which has already been applied, in a preliminary fashion, to the Felicitta project-is meant to integrate official statistics and correlate it with online social media data. Its ultimate goal, in fact, namely consists in giving a contribution to the definition of a measure of subjective well-being that could fully benefit from both traditional, well-established social indicators and dynamic data obtained from the web.