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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Social media trending: real or manufactured?
The era of "fake news" is upon us. Navigating social media is a constant exercise of judgement, but data science can be a helpful to distinguish real… Read more »
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Are your tweets feeling well? Opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick
Can we tell if a person is physically ill by the way they tweet? On a recently published article in the journal EPJ Data Science,… Read more »
Are your friends happier than you?
In an era of fleeting but constant contact with extended online communities, it is common to find yourself wondering: are your… Read more »
Using social media for large-scale studies of gender differences
Social networks capture data about most aspects of the daily lives of millions of people around the world. The analysis of this… Read more »
The best way to pick a profile pic? Get someone else to choose!
For the most appropriate profile picture on social media channels; ask someone else to choose, argues a study in Cognitive… Read more »
Harnessing the hashtag: using social media to detect crises
Researchers develop a Twitter-based sensor for detecting emergencies as they happen.