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Cycling into the workshop: e-bike and m-bike mobility patterns for predictive maintenance in Barcelona’s bike-sharing system
Bike-sharing systems have emerged as a significant element of urban mobility, providing an environmentally friendly transportation alternative. With...
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Shift in house price estimates during COVID-19 reveals effect of crisis on collective speculation
We exploit a city-level panel comprised of individual house price estimates to estimate the impact of COVID-19 on both small and big real-estate...
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Downscaling spatial interaction with socioeconomic attributes
A variety of complex socioeconomic phenomena, for example, migration, commuting, and trade can be abstracted by spatial interaction networks, where...
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Profile update: the effects of identity disclosure on network connections and language
Our social identities determine how we interact and engage with the world surrounding us. In online settings, individuals can make these identities...
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Analyzing user reactions using relevance between location information of tweets and news articles
In this study, we analyze the extent of user reactions based on user’s tweets to news articles, demonstrating the potential for home location...
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Social media sensors as early signals of influenza outbreaks at scale
Detecting early signals of an outbreak in a viral process is challenging due to its exponential nature, yet crucial given the benefits to public...
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Analyzing Russia’s propaganda tactics on Twitter using mixed methods network analysis and natural language processing: a case study of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
This paper examines Russia’s propaganda discourse on Twitter during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The study employs network analysis, natural...
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Glitter or gold? Deriving structured insights from sustainability reports via large language models
Over the last decade, several regulatory bodies have started requiring the disclosure of non-financial information from publicly listed companies, in...
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Quantifying polarization in online political discourse
In an era of increasing political polarization, its analysis becomes crucial for the understanding of democratic dynamics. This paper presents a...
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Detecting coordinated and bot-like behavior in Twitter: the Jürgen Conings case
Social media platforms can play a pivotal role in sha** public opinion during times of crisis and controversy. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a...
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Novel embeddings improve the prediction of risk perception
We assess whether the classic psychometric paradigm of risk perception can be improved or supplanted by novel approaches relying on language...
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First-mover advantage in music
Why do some songs and musicians become successful while others do not? We show that one of the reasons may be the “first-mover advantage”: artists...
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Online advertisement in a pink-colored market
It is surprising that women are often charged more for products and services marketed explicitly to them. This phenomenon, known as the pink tax, is...
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Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices
While Free and Open Source (F/OSS) coding has traditionally been described as a separate commons linked to values of openness and sharing, recent...
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Segmentation using large language models: A new typology of American neighborhoods
In the United States, recent changes to the National Statistical System have amplified the geographic-demographic resolution trade-off. That is, when...
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Early career wins and tournament prestige characterize tennis players’ trajectories
Success in sports is a complex phenomenon that has only garnered limited research attention. In particular, we lack a deep scientific understanding...
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Multifaceted online coordinated behavior in the 2020 US presidential election
Organized attempts to manipulate public opinion during election run-ups have dominated online debates in the last few years. Such attempts require...
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Develo** a hierarchical model for unraveling conspiracy theories
A conspiracy theory (CT) suggests covert groups or powerful individuals secretly manipulate events. Not knowing about existing conspiracy theories...
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Scaling law of real traffic jams under varying travel demand
The escalation of urban traffic congestion has reached a critical extent due to rapid urbanization, capturing considerable attention within urban...
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Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election
The ongoing debate surrounding the impact of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) social media campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election...