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The effect of stay-at-home orders on COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States
James H. Fowler, Seth J. Hill, Remy Levin +1
Governments issue "stay at home" orders to reduce the spread of contagious diseases, but the magnitude of such orders' effectiveness is uncertain. In the United States these orders…
Weather impacts expressed sentiment
Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu +5
We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a hal…
Nowcasting Disaster Damage
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich +4
Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face both an increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters due to climate change. And du…
Corruption Drives the Emergence of Civil Society
Sherief Abdallah, Rasha Sayed, Iyad Rahwan +4
Peer punishment of free-riders (defectors) is a key mechanism for promoting cooperation in society. However, it is highly unstable since some cooperators may contribute to a common…
Friendship and Natural Selection
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
More than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and these ties tend to be with similar people. Here, we show that this similarity…
Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks
Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Esteban Moro Egido, Manuel Cebrian +2
Recent research has focused on the monitoring of global-scale online data for improved detection of epidemics, mood patterns, movements in the stock market, political revolutions,…