Twitter’s tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media
Social networks are widely used as sources of data in computational social science studies, and so it is of particular importance to determine whether… Read more »
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Facing the data avalanche in Science and Healthcare
Vast amounts of data are collected every day from all aspects of people's lives. The recent field of network science aims to tackle the sheer amount… Read more »
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Big Data Analytics: an Editor Q+A
Big Data Analytics published its first articles a little more than a year ago (July 2016). As the journal continues to grow, I… Read more »
The Journal of Big Data has been accepted into Scopus
The Journal of Big Data has recently been accepted into Scopus, an extensive database of peer-reviewed literature.… Read more »
EPJ Data Science Highlight—Mining digital crumbs helps predict crowds’ mobility
Analyzing the traces of human behavior from geolocalization data gives clues for more accurate urban planning.
A new old boys’ network: Wikipedia gender bias in biographies
What if there was an objective way to see if Wikipedia’s reputation for gender bias is real? Turns out, there is.
Harnessing the hashtag: using social media to detect crises
Researchers develop a Twitter-based sensor for detecting emergencies as they happen.
Ola Spjuth joins the Journal of Cheminformatics Editorial Board
Dr. Ola Spjuth of Uppsala University is the latest member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Cheminformatics
[Tweet] along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Or, misery loves company
Not only did they find that happy neighborhoods tended to talk to other happy neighborhoods (and likewise less happy neighborhoods… Read more »