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Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael V. Arnold +5
In real-time, social media data strongly imprints world events, popular culture, and day-to-day conversations by millions of ordinary people at a scale that is scarcely conventiona…
Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters
Michael V. Arnold, David Rushing Dewhurst, Thayer Alshaabi +4
We study collective attention paid towards hurricanes through the lens of -grams on Twitter, a social media platform with global reach. Using hurricane name mentions as a proxy…
The shocklet transform: A decomposition method for the identification of local, mechanism-driven dynamics in sociotechnical time series
David Rushing Dewhurst, Thayer Alshaabi, Dilan Kiley +4
We introduce a qualitative, shape-based, timescale-independent time-domain transform used to extract local dynamics from sociotechnical time series---termed the Discrete Shocklet T…
Selection mechanisms affect volatility in evolving markets
David Rushing Dewhurst, Michael Vincent Arnold, Colin Michael Van Oort
Financial asset markets are sociotechnical systems whose constituent agents are subject to evolutionary pressure as unprofitable agents exit the marketplace and more profitable age…