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Sortof OT: I was also interested in election trends. While Google is focusing on real-time search trends regarding voting, I looked at meme trends leading up to the election. There are interesting trends in the amount of attention different candidate memes received over time. It will be interesting to see whether the attention received by candidates is translated into votes, today.

Here's the working paper: http://iandennismiller.github.io/election-memes

EDIT: quick link to viz: http://imgur.com/S6nHNLT



They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.


A good portion of reddit's memes are hosted on imgur, which was included in the dataset, so there's that.


Too many CTR shills on reddit


How do you distinguish between legitimate Hillary supporters, and CTR shills?


And, all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes


Totally - it's the first time I've messed with the platform and I can see some real value there!




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