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Long-term word frequency dynamics derived from Twitter are corrupted: A bespoke approach to detecting and removing pathologies in ensembles of time series
P. S. Dodds, J. R. Minot, M. V. Arnold +5
Maintaining the integrity of long-term data collection is an essential scientific practice. As a field evolves, so too will that field's measurement instruments and data storage sy…
Generalized Word Shift Graphs: A Method for Visualizing and Explaining Pairwise Comparisons Between Texts
Ryan J. Gallagher, Morgan R. Frank, Lewis Mitchell +4
A common task in computational text analyses is to quantify how two corpora differ according to a measurement like word frequency, sentiment, or information content. However, colla…
Probability-turbulence divergence: A tunable allotaxonometric instrument for comparing heavy-tailed categorical distributions
P. S. Dodds, J. R. Minot, M. V. Arnold +4
Real-world complex systems often comprise many distinct types of elements as well as many more types of networked interactions between elements. When the relative abundances of typ…
Computational timeline reconstruction of the stories surrounding Trump: Story turbulence, narrative control, and collective chronopathy
P. S. Dodds, J. R. Minot, M. V. Arnold +4
Measuring the specific kind, temporal ordering, diversity, and turnover rate of stories surrounding any given subject is essential to developing a complete reckoning of that subjec…
Local information sources received the most attention from Puerto Ricans during the aftermath of Hurricane María
Benjamin Freixas Emery, Meredith T. Niles, Christopher M. Danforth +1
In September 2017, Hurricane María made landfall across the Caribbean region as a category 4 storm. In the aftermath, many residents of Puerto Rico were without power or clean runn…
Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael V. Arnold +5
In real-time, social media data strongly imprints world events, popular culture, and day-to-day conversations by millions of ordinary people at a scale that is scarcely conventiona…