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20172024
most citedSocial Sensing of Floods in the UK

113 citations · 153 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2024

The Language of Weather: Social Media Reactions to Weather Accounting for Climatic and Linguistic Baselines

James C. Young, Rudy Arthur, Hywel T. P. Williams

This study explores how different weather conditions influence public sentiment on social media, focusing on Twitter data from the UK. By considering climate and linguistic baselin…

cs.CY2020★ 22 cited

Studying the UK Job Market During the COVID-19 Crisis with Online Job Ads

Rudy Arthur

The COVID-19 global pandemic and the lockdown policies enacted to mitigate it have had profound effects on the labour market. Understanding these effects requires us to obtain and…

cs.SI2019★ 17 cited

Modularity and Projection of Bipartite Networks

Rudy Arthur

This paper investigates community detection by modularity maximisation on bipartite networks. In particular we are interested in how the operation of projection, using one node set…

cs.SI2018★ 1 cited

The Human Geography of Twitter

Rudy Arthur, Hywel T. P. Williams

Given the centrality of regions in social movements, politics and public administration we aim to quantitatively study inter- and intra-regional communication for the first time. T…

cs.SI2017

Scaling laws in geo-located Twitter data

Rudy Arthur, Hywel Williams

We observe and report on a systematic relationship between population density and Twitter use. Number of tweets, number of users and population per unit area are related by power l…

cs.HC2017★ 113 cited

Social Sensing of Floods in the UK

Rudy Arthur, Chris A. Boulton, Humphrey Shotton +1

"Social sensing" is a form of crowd-sourcing that involves systematic analysis of digital communications to detect real-world events. Here we consider the use of social sensing for…