Election polls are the de facto mechanisms to predict political outcomes. Traditionally, they
are conducted with personal interviews and questionnaires. This process is costly and time …

Since the beginning of this decade, there has seen an exponential growth in number of
internet users using social media, especially Twitter for sharing their views on various topics …

Sentiment analysis plays a vital role in understanding public opinions and sentiments
toward various topics. In recent years, the rise of social media platforms (SMPs) has …

The government schemes (also known as programs and plans) or social welfare policies
can be defined as the set of assistance and aids provided by the country's governance body …

The user-generated Twitter data are a rich source of study and research that reflects the
various social, economic, political, and other issues affecting people across the world …

Researchers have studied political ideology and polarization in many different contexts
since their effects are usually closely related to aspects and actions of individuals and …

Predicting election outcomes is a crucial undertaking, and various methods are employed
for this purpose, such as traditional opinion polling, and social media analysis. However …

In recent years, twitter has become a popular micro blogging tool among the people world
over. These persons post small messages depicting their likes and dislike towards a certain …

Twitter behaves as a social sensor of the world. The tweets provided by the Twitter Firehose
reveal the properties of big data (ie volume, variety, and velocity). With millions of users on …

Traditionally, elections polls have been widely used to analyse trend and to predict likely
election results. However, these methods are very expensive and labour intensive. With the …