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Modeling the Popularity of Twitter Hashtags with Master Equations
Oscar Fontanelli, Ricardo Mansilla
In this work we introduce a model based on master equations to describe the time evolution of the popularity of topics and hashtags on the Twitter social network. Specifically, we…
Beta Rank Function: A Smooth Double-Pareto-Like Distribution
Oscar Fontanelli, Pedro Miramontes, Ricardo Mansilla +2
The Beta Rank Function (BRF) , where is the normalized and continuous rank of an observation , has wide applications in fitting real-world data from soci…
Population patterns in World's administrative units
Oscar Fontanelli, Pedro Miramontes, Germinal Cocho +1
While there has been an extended discussion concerning city population distribution, little has been said about administrative units. Even though there might be a correspondence be…
Beyond Zipf's Law: The Lavalette Rank Function and its Properties
Oscar Fontanelli, Pedro Miramontes, Yaning Yang +2
Although Zipf's law is widespread in natural and social data, one often encounters situations where one or both ends of the ranked data deviate from the power-law function. Previou…