Validating Digital Traces with Survey Data: The Use Case of Religiosity
Social and Information Networks
2023-11-10 v2
Abstract
This paper tests the validity of a digital trace database (Politus) obtained from Twitter, with a recently conducted representative social survey, focusing on the use case of religiosity in Turkey. Religiosity scores in the research are extracted using supervised machine learning under the Politus project. The validation analysis depends on two steps. First, we compare the performances of two alternative tweet-to-user transformation strategies, and second, test for the impact of resampling via the MRP technique. Estimates of the Politus are examined at both aggregate and region-level. The results are intriguing for future research on measuring public opinion via social media data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.17220,
title = {Validating Digital Traces with Survey Data: The Use Case of Religiosity},
author = {M. Fuat Kına and Erdem Yörük and Ali Hürriyetoğlu and Melih Can Yardı and Şükrü Atsızelti and Fırat Duruşan and Oğuz Gürerk and Tolga Etgü and Zübeyir Nişancı and Osman Mutlu and Gizem Bacaksızlar Turbic and Yusuf Akbulut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17220},
year = {2023}
}