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Forecasting audience increase on YouTube. / Rowe, Matthew.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web co-located with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference May 30, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ed. / Fabian Abel; Qi Gao; Eelco Herder; Geert-Jan Houben; Daniel Olmedilla; Alexandre Passant. 2011.

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Harvard

Rowe, M 2011, Forecasting audience increase on YouTube. in F Abel, Q Gao, E Herder, G-J Houben, D Olmedilla & A Passant (eds), Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web co-located with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference May 30, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web (UWeb2011) Workshop, Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011, Greece, 30/05/11. <http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/uweb2011/uweb2011-main-proceedings.pdf>

APA

Rowe, M. (2011). Forecasting audience increase on YouTube. In F. Abel, Q. Gao, E. Herder, G-J. Houben, D. Olmedilla, & A. Passant (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web co-located with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference May 30, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/uweb2011/uweb2011-main-proceedings.pdf

Vancouver

Rowe M. Forecasting audience increase on YouTube. In Abel F, Gao Q, Herder E, Houben G-J, Olmedilla D, Passant A, editors, Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web co-located with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference May 30, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. 2011

Author

Rowe, Matthew. / Forecasting audience increase on YouTube. Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web co-located with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference May 30, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. editor / Fabian Abel ; Qi Gao ; Eelco Herder ; Geert-Jan Houben ; Daniel Olmedilla ; Alexandre Passant. 2011.

Bibtex

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abstract = "User profiles constructed on Social Web platforms are often motivated by the need to maximise user reputation within a community.Subscriber, or follower, counts are an indicator of the influence and standingthat the user has, where greater values indicate a greater perception or regard for what the user has to say or share. However, at present there lacks an understanding of the factors that lead to an increase in such audience levels, and how a user{\textquoteright}s behaviour can affect their reputation. In this paper we attempt to fill this gap, by examining data collected from YouTube over regular time intervals. We explore the correlation between the subscriber counts and several behaviour features - extracted from both the user{\textquoteright}s profile and the content they have shared. Through the use of a Multiple Linear Regression model we are able to forecast the audience levels that users will yield based on observed behaviour. Combining such a model with an exhaustive feature selection process, we yieldstatistically significant performance over a baseline model containing allfeatures.",
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