167 citations
3 papers
physics.soc-ph2014★ 167 cited
Social media fingerprints of unemployment
Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian +1
Recent wide-spread adoption of electronic and pervasive technologies has enabled the study of human behavior at an unprecedented level, uncovering universal patterns underlying hum…
stat.ML2014★ 77 cited
Modular proximal optimization for multidimensional total-variation regularization
Álvaro Barbero, Suvrit Sra
We study \emph{TV regularization}, a widely used technique for eliciting structured sparsity. In particular, we propose efficient algorithms for computing prox-operators for $\ell_…
cs.SI2014★ 141 cited
Performance of Social Network Sensors During Hurricane Sandy
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Esteban Moro +2
Information flow during catastrophic events is a critical aspect of disaster management. Modern communication platforms, in particular online social networks, provide an opportunit…