jstray / media-attention

Analysis of the relationship between media mentions and standing in the polls for the 2016 primary election.

media-attention

Analysis of the relationship between media mentions and standing in the polls for the 2016 primary election. From the story Do media mentions make the candidate? Digging into the data on attention and popularity

Files

• Generate Media Time Series.ipynb - Generates pollsMentionsQ4.csv, mentionsWeek.csv, pollsWeek.csv
• GetMediaCloudMentions.py - use the MediaCloud.org API to get mentions time series
• 2016-national-gop-primary.csv, 2016-national-democratic-primary.csv - downloaded from Huffinton Post Pollster