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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…
Contagion dynamics in time-varying metapopulation networks
Suyu Liu, Andrea Baronchelli, Nicola Perra
The metapopulation framework is adopted in a wide array of disciplines to describe systems of well separated yet connected subpopulations. The subgroups or patches are often repres…
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…
Activity driven modeling of time varying networks
Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras +1
Network modeling plays a critical role in identifying statistical regularities and structural principles common to many systems. The large majority of recent modeling approaches ar…