Analysis of Parliamentary Election Results and Socio-Economic Situation Using Self-Organizing Map

Reference:

Pyry Niemelä and Timo Honkela. Analysis of parliamentary election results and socio-economic situation using self-organizing map. In Proceedings of WSOM'09, pages 209–218, 2009.

Abstract:

The complex phenomena of political science are typically studied using qualitative approach, potentially supported by hypothesis-driven statistical analysis of some numerical data. In this article, we present a complementary method based on data mining and specifically on the use of the self-organizing map. The idea in data mining is to explore the given data without predetermined hypotheses. As a case study, we explore the relationship between parliamentary election results and socio-economic situation in Finland between 1954 and 2003.

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{NiemelaHonkelaWSOM09,
    author = {Pyry Niemel{\"a} and Timo Honkela},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of WSOM'09},
    pages = {209-218},
    title = {Analysis of Parliamentary Election Results and Socio-Economic Situation Using Self-Organizing Map},
    year = {2009},
}