4 papers
Extracting significant signal of news consumption from social networks: the case of Twitter in Italian political elections
Carolina Becatti, Guido Caldarelli, Renaud Lambiotte +1
According to the Eurobarometer report about EU media use of May 2018, the number of European citizens who consult on-line social networks for accessing information is considerably…
Collaboration and followership: a stochastic model for activities in social networks
Carolina Becatti, Irene Crimaldi, Fabio Saracco
In this work we investigate how future actions are influenced by the previous ones, in the specific contexts of scientific collaborations and friendships on social networks. We are…
Entropy-based randomisation of rating networks
Carolina Becatti, Guido Caldarelli, Fabio Saracco
In the last years, due to the great diffusion of e-commerce, online rating platforms quickly became a common tool for purchase recommendations. However, instruments for their analy…
The tempered discrete Linnik distribution
Lucio Barabesi, Carolina Becatti, Marzia Marcheselli
A tempered version of the discrete Linnik distribution is introduced in order to obtain integer-valued distribution families connected to stable laws. The proposal constitutes a ge…