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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…
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,…
Social Contagion Theory: Examining Dynamic Social Networks and Human Behavior
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
Here, we review the research we have done on social contagion. We describe the methods we have employed (and the assumptions they have entailed) in order to examine several dataset…
Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction Patterns
Wei Pan, Manuel Cebrian, Wen Dong +3
How can we model influence between individuals in a social system, even when the network of interactions is unknown? In this article, we review the literature on the "influence mod…