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Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience
Lin Chen, Fengli Xu, Esteban Moro +3
Cities thrive on social interactions that foster well-being, innovation, and prosperity; yet, exogenous shocks such as pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires can severely disrupt the…
Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar +6
The "small world phenomenon," popularized by Stanley Milgram, suggests that individuals from across a social network are connected via a short path of mutual friends and can levera…
Attack Tolerance of Link Prediction Algorithms: How to Hide Your Relations in a Social Network
Marcin Waniek, Kai Zhou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik +3
Link prediction is one of the fundamental research problems in network analysis. Intuitively, it involves identifying the edges that are most likely to be added to a given network,…
MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian +1
The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content on the Internet is an essential problem in computational social science, affecting areas ranging fro…
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,…