Academic performance and behavioral patterns
In an article just published in EPJ Data Science, Valentin Kassarnig, Sune Lehmann and Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen look into smartphone data of… Read more »
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Discovering temporal regularities in retail customers’ shopping behavior
Why do we buy certain items when we buy them? A new study published in EPJ Data Science analyzes personal retail data to extract a temporal purchasing… Read more »
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The science behind what makes a bestselling book
Books that are fiction, thrillers or mysteries, have high initial sales numbers and are released around Christmas are more likely… Read more »
Sentiment analysis methods for understanding large-scale texts: A case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs
Due to the emergence and continuously increasing usage of social media services all over the world, it is now possible to estimate… 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.
New Editors-in-Chief for Journal of Cheminformatics
Rajarshi Guha and Egon Willighagen take the helm as new Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics.
The 251st ACS National Meeting: Computers in Chemistry
San Diego recently hosted the 251st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the Springer chemistry team were there and… Read more »
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.
EPJ Data Science Highlight—using patients’ trail of digital crumbs for public health surveillance
Public health agencies could capitalize on streams of data related to patients on the internet but only once interpretation… Read more »
Call data records (CDRs) in review
As cell phone use has ballooned over the last several decades, so has an enormous data set of call data records (CDRs) which… Read more »