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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…
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…
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…