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Characterizing scientific production and consumption in Physics
Qian Zhang, Nicola Perra, Bruno Goncalves +2
We analyze the entire publication database of the American Physical Society generating longitudinal (50 years) citation networks geolocalized at the level of single urban areas. We…
The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms
Delia Mocanu, Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Gonçalves +2
Large scale analysis and statistics of socio-technical systems that just a few short years ago would have required the use of consistent economic and human resources can nowadays b…
Random walks and search in time-varying networks
Nicola Perra, Andrea Baronchelli, Delia Mocanu +3
The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regi…
Beating the news using Social Media: the case study of American Idol
Fabio Ciulla, Delia Mocanu, Andrea Baronchelli +3
We present a contribution to the debate on the predictability of social events using big data analytics. We focus on the elimination of contestants in the American Idol TV shows as…
Towards a characterization of behavior-disease models
Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan, Bruno Gonçalves +1
The last decade saw the advent of increasingly realistic epidemic models that leverage on the availability of highly detailed census and human mobility data. Data-driven models aim…
Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations
Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani
Modern society's increasing dependency on online tools for both work and recreation opens up unique opportunities for the study of social interactions. A large survey of online exc…