Pre-election race through the eyes of search robots

We perform daily cross-section of documents located on the main pages of the million most visited sites in the world. Today we will look at how the number of references to presidential candidates correlates with ongoing events.

Link to chart, scale - linear

The number corresponds to the number of references found in the text from the body of html documents received by the crawler daily, which allows us to display an index for each candidate. Usually we build similar indices by brand for marketers / pr-specialists, but the election is a historic event.
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Frankly, we approached this issue with some negligence, Sobchak was added by some miracle before she announced her desire to nominate a candidate, Grudinina already when it became clear that without him the banquet would not take place. On the other hand, we did not have a goal to make a thorough analysis of the candidates' technologies, we wanted to see how the tops behave.

On the graph at the beginning of the topic, we can observe the dynamics of references to candidates. The scale is linear, Putin flew away, Sobchak (when he announced his nomination) and Navalny (when the CEC denied registration) approached him most of all. Here the scale is logarithmic .

Consider the details

Putin

1. Straight line with the president
2. Putin and Trump meeting
3. Putin's birthday
4. Cancel meeting with Trump
5. Nomination for President
6. Big press conference of Vladimir Putin
7. Appeal to the Federal Assembly

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Bulk

1. Organized a rally
2. Navalny sold “Life” a video about “Navalny’s rest in France”. He earned 10 thousand rubles for his presidential campaign. Meduza. In parallel, a network of sites selling attributes to the elections with the symbols of Navalny was launched. It is this network that raised the background so much.
3. Protests of supporters of Alexei Navalny
4. CEC refused registration
5. Protests of supporters of Alexei Navalny
6. Site Navalny blacklisted

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Sobchak, Zhirinovsky

1. MOSCOW, September 4. / TASS /. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, admitted that he was unpleasant to publish in the Russian media, stating that one of the candidates in the upcoming elections in March 2018 would be a woman.
2. The birth of Sobchak as a presidential candidate. It is worth noting that the background of mentions as it flew in from the level of Zhirinovsky did not completely roll back.
3. Sobchak poured water over Zhirinovsky during debates

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Grudinin, Zhirinovsky

With Grudinin alone scandals, nothing interesting (Zhirinovsky for scale)

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General form

The schedule will be updated daily, the system continues to collect data, let's see how events will develop in the last week before the vote.

Interesting observations

1. Zhirinovsky has the strongest information point in the history of observations - a scandal with Sobchak, the number of references is the lowest.
2. Grudinin scandals confused all, but fights in the same pile with the rest.
3. So, as Sobchak wrote on the day when she announced her desire - never wrote again (yet).
4. Bulk falls.
5. The information wave from Putin’s address to the Federation Council is comparable to the first meeting with Trump.

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PS If someone wants to conduct their own research, for example, to find something about the candidates in the news headlines - write in a personal, share datasetami.