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Link Me Baby One More Time: Social Music Discovery on Spotify
Shazia'Ayn Babul, Desislava Hristova, Antonio Lima +2
We explore the social and contextual factors that influence the outcome of person-to-person music recommendations and discovery. Specifically, we use data from Spotify to investiga…
Detecting Socio-Economic Impact of Cultural Investment Through Geo-Social Network Analysis
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
Taking advantage of nearly 4 million transition records for three years in London from a popular location-based social network service, Foursquare, we study how to track the impact…
Evaluating the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games policy on the regeneration of East London using spatio-temporal big data
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
For urban governments, introducing policies has long been adopted as a main approach to instigate regeneration processes, and to promote social mixing and vitality within the city.…
Cultural Investment and Urban Socio-Economic Development: A Geo-Social Network Approach
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +2
Being able to assess the impact of government-led investment onto socio-economic indicators in cities has long been an important target of urban planning. However, due to the lack…
The New Urban Success: How Culture Pays
Desislava Hristova, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia
Urban economists have put forward the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract "the creative class" and, as a result, end up being economically successful.…
Foursquare to The Rescue: Predicting Ambulance Calls Across Geographies
Anastasios Noulas, Colin Moffatt, Desislava Hristova +1
Understanding how ambulance incidents are spatially distributed can shed light to the epidemiological dynamics of geographic areas and inform healthcare policy design. Here we anal…
Developing and Deploying a Taxi Price Comparison Mobile App in the Wild: Insights and Challenges
Anastasios Noulas, Vsevolod Salnikov, Desislava Hristova +2
As modern transportation systems become more complex, there is need for mobile applications that allow travelers to navigate efficiently in cities. In taxi transport the recent pro…
The International Postal Network and Other Global Flows As Proxies for National Wellbeing
Desislava Hristova, Alex Rutherford, Jose Anson +2
The digital exhaust left by flows of physical and digital commodities provides a rich measure of the nature, strength and significance of relationships between countries in the glo…
A Multilayer Approach to Multiplexity and Link Prediction in Online Geo-Social Networks
Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas, Chloë Brown +2
Online social systems are multiplex in nature as multiple links may exist between the same two users across different social networks. In this work, we introduce a framework for st…
Keep Your Friends Close and Your Facebook Friends Closer: A Multiplex Network Approach to the Analysis of Offline and Online Social Ties
Desislava Hristova, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo
Social media allow for an unprecedented amount of interaction between people online. A fundamental aspect of human social behavior, however, is the tendency of people to associate…