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Predicting the temporal activity patterns of new venues
Krittika D'Silva, Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi +2
Estimating revenue and business demand of a newly opened venue is paramount as these early stages often involve critical decisions such as first rounds of staffing and resource all…
Linking Twitter Events With Stock Market Jitters
Fani Tsapeli, Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis, Peter Tino +1
Predicting investors reactions to financial and political news is important for the early detection of stock market jitters. Evidence from several recent studies suggests that onli…
A Comparison of Spatial-based Targeted Disease Containment Strategies using Mobile Phone Data
Stefania Rubrichi, Zbigniew Smoreda, Mirco Musolesi
Epidemic outbreaks are an important healthcare challenge, especially in developing countries where they represent one of the major causes of mortality. Approaches that can rapidly…
Who Benefits from the "Sharing" Economy of Airbnb?
Giovanni Quattrone, Davide Proserpio, Daniele Quercia +2
Sharing economy platforms have become extremely popular in the last few years, and they have changed the way in which we commute, travel, and borrow among many other activities. De…
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…
Progmosis: Evaluating Risky Individual Behavior During Epidemics Using Mobile Network Data
Antonio Lima, Veljko Pejovic, Luca Rossi +2
The possibility to analyze, quantify and forecast epidemic outbreaks is fundamental when devising effective disease containment strategies. Policy makers are faced with the intrica…
Coding Together at Scale: GitHub as a Collaborative Social Network
Antonio Lima, Luca Rossi, Mirco Musolesi
GitHub is the most popular repository for open source code. It has more than 3.5 million users, as the company declared in April 2013, and more than 10 million repositories, as of…
You are What you Eat (and Drink): Identifying Cultural Boundaries by Analyzing Food & Drink Habits in Foursquare
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O S Vaz de Melo, Jussara Almeida +2
Food and drink are two of the most basic needs of human beings. However, as society evolved, food and drink became also a strong cultural aspect, being able to describe strong diff…
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…
Exploiting Cellular Data for Disease Containment and Information Campaigns Strategies in Country-Wide Epidemics
Antonio Lima, Manlio De Domenico, Veljko Pejovic +1
Human mobility is one of the key factors at the basis of the spreading of diseases in a population. Containment strategies are usually devised on movement scenarios based on coarse…