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Who Watches (and Shares) What on YouTube? And When? Using Twitter to Understand YouTube Viewership
Adiya Abisheva, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, David Garcia +1
We combine user-centric Twitter data with video-centric YouTube data to analyze who watches and shares what on YouTube. Combination of two data sets, with 87k Twitter users, 5.6mln…
The Role of Emotions in Contributors Activity: A Case Study on the GENTOO Community
David Garcia, Marcelo Serrano Zanetti, Frank Schweitzer
We analyse the relation between the emotions and the activity of contributors in the Open Source Software project Gentoo. Our case study builds on extensive data sets from the proj…
Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster
David Garcia, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
We empirically analyze five online communities: Friendster, Livejournal, Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, to identify causes for the decline of social networks. We define social resilienc…
Measuring Cultural Dynamics Through the Eurovision Song Contest
David García, Dorian Tanase
Measuring culture and its dynamics through surveys has important limitations, but the emerging field of computational social science allows us to overcome them by analyzing large-s…