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Quantification in social networks
2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2015 In many real-world applications there is a need to monitor the distribution of a population across different classes, and to track changes in this distribution over time. As an example, an important task is to monitor the percentage of unemployed adults in a given region.
Letizia Milli +2 more
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The Resource Generator: social capital quantification with concrete items [PDF]
Social Networks, 2005 In research on the social capital of individuals, there has been little standardisation of measurement instruments, and more emphasis on measuring social relationships than on social resources. In this paper, we propose two innovations. First, a new measurement method: the Resource Generator; an instrument with concretely worded items covering 'general'
Tom A B Snijders
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Location-Specific Influence Quantification in Location-Based Social Networks [PDF]
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2019 Location-based social networks (LBSNs) such as Foursquare offer a platform for users to share and be aware of each other’s physical movements. As a result of such a sharing of check-in information with each other, users can be influenced to visit (or check-in) at the locations visited by their friends.
Ankita Likhyani +2 more
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Quantification of Productivity of the Brands on Social Media With Respect to Their Responsiveness [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2019 Social online marketing is expanding fast with the evolution and recent development in the information and communication technology. Investigating how companies are exploiting social media for marketing, advertisement, and consumer's engagement is ...
Basit Shahzad +6 more
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A bootstrapping approach to social media quantification [PDF]
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2021 AbstractThis work considers the use of classifiers in a downstream aggregation task estimating class proportions, such as estimating the percentage of reviews for a movie with positive sentiment. We derive the bias and variance of the class proportion estimator when taking classification error into account to determine how to best trade off different ...
Ashlynn R. Daughton, Michael J. Paul
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Quantifying participation biases on social media
EPJ Data Science, 2023 Around seven-in-ten Americans use social media (SM) to connect and engage, making these platforms excellent sources of information to understand human behavior and other problems relevant to social sciences.
Neeti Pokhriyal +2 more
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Online social cohesion reflects real-world group action in Syria during the Arab Spring.
PLoS ONE, 2021 In recent years, political activists have taken to social media platforms to rapidly reach broad audiences. Despite the prevalence of micro-blogging in these sociopolitical movements, the degree to which virtual mobilization reflects or drives real-world
Megan Chiovaro +3 more
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Quantification of Economic, Ecological and Social Impacts of Climate Change in the EU [PDF]
European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 The article focuses on the current, urgent, and much discussed global issue of climate change, the impacts of which are expansive and involve a wide range of expertise.
Daniela SPIRKOVA +3 more
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Statistics and social critique
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2014 This paper focuses on the history of the uses of statistics as a tool for socialcritique. Whereas nowadays they are very often conceived as being in the hands of the powerful, there are many historical cases when they were, on the contrary, used to ...
Alain Desrosières
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