This paper presents an analysis of the accounts of the main candidates in the regional elections on October 25, 2015 in Colombia (Bogotá, Medellin and Cali) and the official hashtags of the two main parties for parliamentary elections on December 6, 2015 in Venezuela (PSUV and MUD) in order to determine the positive or negative trends and compare them with the results of the respective elections. To develop the analysis, we resorted to the technique of sentiment analysis own of data mining and the use of descriptive statistics, concluding that sentiment analysis for estimating trends requires processes to monitor retweets, if you want acceptable results.
<p>La información disponible en redes de datos como la Web o las redes sociales se encuentra en continuo crecimiento, con unas características de dinamismo especiales. Entre los mecanismos encargados de rastrear los cambios en dicha información se encuentran los Web<br />crawlers, los cuales por la misma dinámica de la información, deben mejorarse constantemente en busca de algoritmos más eficientes. Este documento presenta el estado actual de los algoritmos de rastreo de la Web, sus tendencias, avances, y nuevos enfoques dentro del contexto de la dinámica de las redes sociales.</p>
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