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Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
Emily M. Cody, Jennie C. Stephens, James P. Bagrow +2
Although climate change and energy are intricately linked, their explicit connection is not always prominent in public discourse and the media. Disruptive extreme weather events, i…
The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media
S. E. Alajajian, J. R. Williams, A. J. Reagan +6
We propose and develop a Lexicocalorimeter: an online, interactive instrument for measuring the "caloric content" of social media and other large-scale texts. We do so by construct…
The game story space of professional sports: Australian Rules Football
D. P. Kiley, A. J. Reagan, L. Mitchell +2
Sports are spontaneous generators of stories. Through skill and chance, the script of each game is dynamically written in real time by players acting out possible trajectories allo…
Social media affects the timing, location, and severity of school shootings
J. Garcia-Bernardo, H. Qi, J. M. Shultz +3
Over the past two decades, school shootings within the United States have repeatedly devastated communities and shaken public opinion. Many of these attacks appear to be `lone wolf…
Reply to Garcia et al.: Common mistakes in measuring frequency dependent word characteristics
P. S. Dodds, E. M. Clark, S. Desu +11
We demonstrate that the concerns expressed by Garcia et al. are misplaced, due to (1) a misreading of our findings in [1]; (2) a widespread failure to examine and present words in…
Climate change sentiment on Twitter: An unsolicited public opinion poll
Emily M. Cody, Andrew J. Reagan, Lewis Mitchell +2
The consequences of anthropogenic climate change are extensively debated through scientific papers, newspaper articles, and blogs. Newspaper articles may lack accuracy, while the s…
Characterizing the Google Books corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural and linguistic evolution
Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
It is tempting to treat frequency trends from the Google Books data sets as indicators of the "true" popularity of various words and phrases. Doing so allows us to draw quantitativ…