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Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?
Taha Yasseri, Jonathan Bright
Today, our more-than-ever digital lives leave significant footprints in cyberspace. Large scale collections of these socially generated footprints, often known as big data, could h…
The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics
Anna Samoilenko, Taha Yasseri
Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and insti…
Rapid rise and decay in petition signing
Taha Yasseri, Scott A. Hale, Helen Margetts
Contemporary collective action, much of which involves social media and other Internet-based platforms, leaves a digital imprint which may be harvested to better understand the dyn…
The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis
Taha Yasseri, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham +1
We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia…
Temporal Analysis of Activity Patterns of Editors in Collaborative Mapping Project of OpenStreetMap
Taha Yasseri, Giovanni Quattrone, Afra Mashhadi
In the recent years Wikis have become an attractive platform for social studies of the human behaviour. Containing millions records of edits across the globe, collaborative systems…
Petition Growth and Success Rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street Website
Scott A. Hale, Helen Margetts, Taha Yasseri
Now that so much of collective action takes place online, web-generated data can further understanding of the mechanics of Internet-based mobilisation. This trace data offers socia…