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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…