Concepts inTopic-centric Classification of Twitter User's Political Orientation

Politics

Politics (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.  more from Wikipedia

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 140 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet.  more from Wikipedia

Political campaign

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Voting

Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion¿often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting.  more from Wikipedia

Statistical classification

In machine learning and statistics, classification is the problem of identifying which of a set of categories (sub-populations) a new observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data containing observations (or instances) whose category membership is known. The individual observations are analyzed into a set of quantifiable properties, known as various explanatory variables, features, etc. These properties may variously be categorical (e.g.  more from Wikipedia