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Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook
Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg
A crucial task in the analysis of on-line social-networking systems is to identify important people --- those linked by strong social ties --- within an individual's network neighb…
Graph cluster randomization: network exposure to multiple universes
Johan Ugander, Brian Karrer, Lars Backstrom +1
A/B testing is a standard approach for evaluating the effect of online experiments; the goal is to estimate the `average treatment effect' of a new feature or condition by exposing…
Subgraph Frequencies: Mapping the Empirical and Extremal Geography of Large Graph Collections
Johan Ugander, Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg
A growing set of on-line applications are generating data that can be viewed as very large collections of small, dense social graphs -- these range from sets of social groups, even…
Characterizing and curating conversation threads: Expansion, focus, volume, re-entry
Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee +1
Discussion threads form a central part of the experience on many Web sites, including social networking sites such as Facebook and Google Plus and knowledge creation sites such as…