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Contrasting social and non-social sources of predictability in human mobility
Zexun Chen, Sean Kelty, Brooke Foucault Welles +3
Social structures influence a variety of human behaviors including mobility patterns, but the extent to which one individual's movements can predict another's remains an open quest…
The sociospatial factors of death: Analyzing effects of geospatially-distributed variables in a Bayesian mortality model for Hong Kong
Thayer Alshaabi, David Rushing Dewhurst, James P. Bagrow +2
Human mortality is in part a function of multiple socioeconomic factors that differ both spatially and temporally. Adjusting for other covariates, the human lifespan is positively…
Complex contagion features without social reinforcement in a model of social information flow
Tyson Pond, Saranzaya Magsarjav, Tobin South +2
Contagion models are a primary lens through which we understand the spread of information over social networks. However, simple contagion models cannot reproduce the complex featur…
The quoter model: a paradigmatic model of the social flow of written information
James P. Bagrow, Lewis Mitchell
We propose a model for the social flow of information in the form of text data, which simulates the posting and sharing of short social media posts. Nodes in a graph representing a…
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
James P. Bagrow, Xipei Liu, Lewis Mitchell
Modern society depends on the flow of information over online social networks, and users of popular platforms generate significant behavioral data about themselves and their social…
Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
Emily M. Cody, Jennie C. Stephens, James P. Bagrow +2
Although climate change and energy are intricately linked, their explicit connection is not always prominent in public discourse and the media. Disruptive extreme weather events, i…