Posts Tagged ‘ facebook ’

Tents, Tweets, and Events: Ongoing Protests and Social Media

March 3, 2015
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Our paper, entitled Tents, Tweets, and Events: The Interplay Between Ongoing Protests and Social Media, written with Marco Toledo Bastos (aka @toledobastos) and Dan Mercea (aka @DanMercea) just appeared in the Journal of Communication Recent protest movements have fuelled deliberations about the extent to which social media ignite protests. In this paper we compare time-series data of Twitter, Facebook, and onsite protest activity to test the hypothesis of Granger-causality between social media streams…

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Guest post: PNAS, facebook and the ethics of online experimentation

July 4, 2014
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Guest post: PNAS, facebook and the ethics of online experimentation

This is a guest blog post by Gerry Markopoulos. I'm posting it because I think it is an important topic that deserves wider discussion.Recently, an article was published in the prestigious journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (...

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Advances in scalable Bayesian computation [day #3]

March 6, 2014
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Advances in scalable Bayesian computation [day #3]

We have now gone over the midpoint of our workshop Advances in Scalable Bayesian Computation with three talks in the morning and an open research or open air afternoon. (Maybe surprisingly I chose to stay indoors and work on a new research topic rather than trying cross-country skiing!) If I must give a theme for […]

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Visualising (not so) Big Data

December 1, 2013
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Visualising (not so) Big Data

Facebook is a frequently used source for information. We do not know all kinds of such data queries and reutilisations……. …Continue reading →

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Visualising (not so) Big Data

December 1, 2013
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Visualising (not so) Big Data

Facebook is a frequently used source for information. We do not know all kinds of such data queries and reutilisations……. …Continue reading →

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The Future of Non Probability Sampling

May 17, 2013
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The Future of Non Probability Sampling

While attending the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Boston, MA the topic of non-probability samples was something of a reoccurring theme. I attended the task force panel review on the topic. However, there is currently no commonly accepted solution. It was about one year ago that Pew reported (Pew report) that their […]

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Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (7/22/12)

July 22, 2012
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This paper is the paper describing how Uri Simonsohn identified academic misconduct using statistical analyses. This approach has received a huge amount of press in the scientific literature. The basic approach is that he calculates the standard devia...

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Facebook Dating Data Mining with “Wings” by Triangulate

September 23, 2010
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Facebook Dating Data Mining with “Wings” by Triangulate

Software "Wings" from Start-Up Triangulate, gives dating recommendations with help of Data Mining Methods on facebook. This facebook application analysis data scource like last.fm or Twitter as [...] Related posts: Cloud Mining at Layered Technologies? Layered Technologies introduces new safe Virtual Private Data Center supporting... Data Mining in the KDD Environment Data Mining is only one step in discovering knowledge (KDD).... Cloud Mining – CRM Data Mining in the Cloud…

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