8 citations · 8 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
6 papers
A general solution to the preferential selection model
Jake Ryland Williams, Diana Solano-Oropeza, Jacob R. Hunsberger
We provide a general analytic solution to Herbert Simon's 1955 model for time-evolving novelty functions. This has far-reaching consequences: Simon's is a pre-cursor model for Bara…
Investigating Coordinated 'Social' Targeting of High-Profile Twitter Accounts
Hunter Scott Heidenreich, Munif Ishad Mujib, Jake Ryland Williams
Following the 2016 US presidential election, there has been an increased focus on politically-motivated manipulation of mass-user behavior on social media platforms. Since a large…
NewsTweet: A Dataset of Social Media Embedding in Online Journalism
Munif Ishad Mujib, Hunter Scott Heidenreich, Colin J. Murphy +3
The inclusion of social media posts---tweets, in particular---in digital news stories, both as commentary and increasingly as news sources, has become commonplace in recent years.…
A Computational Framework for Multi-Modal Social Action Identification
Jason Anastasopoulos, Jake Ryland Williams
We create a computational framework for understanding social action and demonstrate how this framework can be used to build an open-source event detection tool with scalable statis…
Is space a word, too?
Jake Ryland Williams, Giovanni C. Santia
For words, rank-frequency distributions have long been heralded for adherence to a potentially-universal phenomenon known as Zipf's law. The hypothetical form of this empirical phe…
Reply to Garcia et al.: Common mistakes in measuring frequency dependent word characteristics
P. S. Dodds, E. M. Clark, S. Desu +11
We demonstrate that the concerns expressed by Garcia et al. are misplaced, due to (1) a misreading of our findings in [1]; (2) a widespread failure to examine and present words in…