Social Phenomena
From Data Analysis to Models
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Scientific discoveries do not occur in vacuum but rather by connecting existing pieces of knowledge in new and creative ways. Map** the relation and structure of scientific knowledge is therefore central to ...
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Most individuals in social networks experience a so-called Friendship Paradox: they are less popular than their friends on average. This effect may explain recent findings that widespread social network media ...
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Tourism is becoming a significant contributor to medium and long range travels in an increasingly globalized world. Leisure traveling has an important impact on the local and global economy as well as on the e...
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When it was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, the World Wide Web (WWW) [1] was intended as a way for the publication and sharing of information among researchers at CERN. The original WWW browser allowe...
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The spreading of infectious diseases has dramatically shaped our history and society. The quest to understand and prevent their spreading dates more than two centuries. Over the years, advances in Medicine, Bi...
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We present a contribution to the debate on the predictability of social events using big data analytics. We focus on the elimination of contestants in the American Idol TV shows as an example of a well defined...
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We examine partisan differences in the behavior, communication patterns and social interactions of more than 18,000 politically-active Twitter users to produce evidence that points to changing levels of partis...