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A natural language processing and geospatial clustering framework for harvesting local place names from geotagged housing advertisements
Yingjie Hu, Huina Mao, Grant McKenzie
Local place names are frequently used by residents living in a geographic region. Such place names may not be recorded in existing gazetteers, due to their vernacular nature, relat…
Predicting Financial Markets: Comparing Survey, News, Twitter and Search Engine Data
Huina Mao, Scott Counts, Johan Bollen
Financial market prediction on the basis of online sentiment tracking has drawn a lot of attention recently. However, most results in this emerging domain rely on a unique, particu…
Happiness is assortative in online social networks
Johan Bollen, Bruno Goncalves, Guangchen Ruan +1
Social networks tend to disproportionally favor connections between individuals with either similar or dissimilar characteristics. This propensity, referred to as assortative mixin…
Twitter mood predicts the stock market
Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, Xiao-Jun Zeng
Behavioral economics tells us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavior and decision-making. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e., can societies experienc…
Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena
Johan Bollen, Alberto Pepe, Huina Mao
Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A variegated mosa…