PAOLO BRUNORI, matteo zandi, riccardo govoni, alessandro bonazzi, giulio isacco lampronti

Visibilità mediatica dei candidati alle primarie del Partito Democratico. Analisi con i dati di Bayes-Swarm

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Gennaio-Aprile 2008

Anno LXXIII    n. 1

Summary - This short comment about the recent Partito Democratico (PD) primary election concentrates on the three main candidates in the election campaign. Specifically, we focused on Walter Veltroni, Rosy Bindi and  Enrico Letta's media visibility using an original dataset. With our data we are able to measure how many times their names appear on  online newspapers, blogs and news agencies. We believe our sample represents these candidates' media visibility with a good  approximation and we have tried to relate these values with the  election results. Notably our indicator appears to foretell real final percentages with great accuracy.