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Community detection in interval-weighted networks
In this paper we introduce and develop the concept of interval-weighted networks (IWN), a novel approach in Social Network Analysis, where the edge weights are represented by closed intervals composed with pre...
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Analysis of online position auctions for search engine marketing
Sponsored advertising on search engines is one of the fastest growing online advertising marketplaces. The space available for paid ads, or positions, is sold using auctions and payment is calculated consideri...
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Open AccessRating and perceived helpfulness in a bipartite network of online product reviews
In many e-commerce platforms user communities share product information in the form of reviews and ratings to help other consumers to make their choices. This study develops a new theoretical framework generat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Game ON! a Gamified Approach to Household Food Waste Reduction
Food waste is an issue of high relevance to all countries around the globe. Many entities and governments work towards finding a solution to decrease or minimise the waste from its production to food consumpti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Review on Official Survey Item Classification for Mixed-Mode Effects Adjustment
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct impact on the development, production, and dissemination of official statistics. This situation led National Statistics Institutes (NSIs) to make methodological and pract...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Survival Analysis of Organizational Network – An Exploratory Study
Organizations interact with their surroundings and with other organizations, and these interactions are critical for learning and evolution. To overcome the problems that they face during their existence, orga...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring Dataset Patterns for New Demand Response Participants Classification
There is a growing trend towards consumer-focused approaches integrating distributed generation resources in the power and energy sector. This, however, adds complexity to community management as new players a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software Tools for Satellite Laser Altimetry Data Processing, Analysis, and Visualization: An Overview and Assessment
Although there are some applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) to handle satellite laser altimetry data, there is a lack of tools that allow to access, visualize, and explore adequately the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Learning Approach to Improve the Selection of Forecasting Algorithms in an Office Building in Different Contexts
Energy management in buildings can be largely improved by considering adequate forecasting techniques to find load consumption patterns. While these forecasting techniques are relevant, decision making is need...
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Project-Based Learning with a Social Impact: Connecting Data Science Movements, Civic Statistics, and Service-Learning
Ever since there has been an organized collection and use of data for informing decision making, there has been a debate about the extent to which these data have been put to the best use for improving social ...
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Chapter
Data Sets: Examples and Access for Civic Statistics
Citizens are more and more encouraged to participate in public policy decision processes and, therefore, critical questions regarding our lives are asked every day. Informed citizens need access to data, and k...
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Data Science, Statistics, and Civic Statistics: Education for a Fast Changing World
What is the relationship between , statistics, and Civic Statistics? Are they symbiotic, or are they in conflict? A graphic on the homepage of the American Statistical Association (https://www.amstat.org/ASA/ab...
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Interactive Data Visualizations for Teaching Civic Statistics
How might you use in your teaching? Here, we offer some ideas, and some provocations to review your teaching. We begin with an invitation to examine some of the historical landmarks in data visualisation (DV...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Drifting Towards a New HCI Field: A Review of 10 Years of HWID Research
Over the last decade, empirical relationships between work domain an...
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Chapter
Lesson Plan Approaches: Tasks That Motivate Students to Think
In recent years, it has been increasingly necessary for citizens to understand —an ability that is rarely taught in schools, where the majority of tasks in statistics classes contain fictional data without co...
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Chapter
Exploring Climate Change Data with R
Climate change is an existential threat facing humanity and the future of our planet. The signs of global warming are everywhere, and they are more complex than just the climbing temperatures. Climate data on ...
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Effects of three biochars on copper immobilization and soil microbial communities in a metal-contaminated soil using a metallophyte and two agricultural plants
Biochar (BC) is a porous, carbonaceous material produced by slow pyrolysis of biomass under oxygen-limited conditions. BC production has been attracting research interest because it modifies soil physicochemic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolution of Business Collaboration Networks: An Exploratory Study Based on Multiple Factor Analysis
Literature on analysis of inter-organizational networks mentions the benefits that collaboration networks can provide to firms, in terms of managerial decision-making, although rarely analysed in terms of thei...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Increasing the Museum Visitor’s Engagement Through Compelling Storytelling Based on Interactive Explorations
Today, technology offers exciting and news possibilities to bring visitors closer to museums. The museological universe has developed a lot over the last years, presenting today with innovative characteristic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Quotes and Physical Activity Tracking: Can Aesthetic Pleasure Motivate Our Short-term Exercise Motivation?
Empirical studies of activity tracking in HCI research have paid little attention to the impact of the visual presentation of motivational text messages on exercise motivation, even though, these days, motivat...
