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Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others
Martin Saveski, Farshad Kooti, Sylvia Morelli Vitousek +3
People assume different and important roles within social networks. Some roles have received extensive study: that of influencers who are well-connected, and that of brokers who br…
Causal Network Motifs: Identifying Heterogeneous Spillover Effects in A/B Tests
Yuan Yuan, Kristen M. Altenburger, Farshad Kooti
Randomized experiments, or "A/B" tests, remain the gold standard for evaluating the causal effect of a policy intervention or product change. However, experimental settings, such a…
iPhone's Digital Marketplace: Characterizing the Big Spenders
Farshad Kooti, Mihajlo Grbovic, Luca Maria Aiello +2
With mobile shopping surging in popularity, people are spending ever more money on digital purchases through their mobile devices and phones. However, few large-scale studies of mo…
Evolution of Conversations in the Age of Email Overload
Farshad Kooti, Luca Maria Aiello, Mihajlo Grbovic +2
Email is a ubiquitous communications tool in the workplace and plays an important role in social interactions. Previous studies of email were largely based on surveys and limited t…
Friendship Paradox Redux: Your Friends Are More Interesting Than You
Nathan O. Hodas, Farshad Kooti, Kristina Lerman
Feld's friendship paradox states that "your friends have more friends than you, on average." This paradox arises because extremely popular people, despite being rare, are overrepre…