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Big Data T rends in the Google Era Application to Greek Politics Business and Environmental Technology Lab Environmental Engineering Department, Democritus University of Thrace Amaryllis Mavragani & Konstantinos Tsagarakis

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Page 1: Big Data Trends in the Google Era Application to Greek Politics Business and Environmental Technology Lab Environmental Engineering Department, Democritus

Big Data Trends

in the Google Era

Application to Greek

Politics

Business and Environmental Technology LabEnvironmental Engineering Department, Democritus University of

Thrace

Amaryllis Mavragani &

Konstantinos Tsagarakis

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Big

Data

Large volumes (growing exponentially)

Wide range of data sets

High processing speed

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Google

Tools

Google Trends

Google Correlate

Keyword Planner

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Google

Tools Are these tools

credible enough for academic research?

The answer seems to be positive

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Google

Tools

Many published papers using Google Trends

Scientific fields include:

Economics and Finance

Medicine Behavior Social Sciences

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Aim

s &

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We use these Google Tools to look into specific terms in greek politics

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Google

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ends

Keyword searchSelect time periodSelect location (Country/Worldwide)

Outputs:

A ‘What’s Trending’ graph

Breakdown by City or Region

Related Searches – Breakdown by Top & Rising

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Gre

xit A well-known term

derived by the words

‘Greece’ & ‘Exit’

i.e. Greece exiting Euro

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Google

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ends

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Defa

ult

The greek word for default is

“Χρεοκοπία”,

though very commonly misspelled as

“Χρεωκοπία”

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Defa

ult

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Google

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Google

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ends Different

Spellings

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Noisy Data

Varoufakis: Greek Economics Minister

Incident with video with middle finger

Not clear if real or fake

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Google

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ends

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Google

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ends

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Google Trends requires careful use and analysis

Normalized values

Differences in results:

Misspelling

Use or not of accents

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Google

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te

Keyword search

Outputs:

Keyword’s correlation with other words or phrases

Line Chart

Scatter Plot

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Google

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Odd correlations

Upload own time series

Instant correlation results

Line Chart & Scatter Plot

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Keyw

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lanner

Keyword search

Breakdown by Device

Breakdown by Location

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Absolute volumes of searches

Breakdown by device allows further analysis

Only goes two years back

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Concl

usi

ons

Google tools

Easy

Fast

Accessible

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Concl

usi

ons

Google tools

Careful analysis

Languages

Misspelling

Accents

Odd correlations

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Thank you