A market basket is a set of products that form a single retail transaction. This purchase data of products can shed important light on how product(s) might influence sales of oth...
—We study information diffusion in real-life and synthetic dynamic networks, using well known threshold and cascade models of diffusion. Our test-bed is the communication network...
Konstantin Mertsalov, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Mark K....
We propose an approach to determine the ethnic breakdown of a population based solely on people's names and data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. We demonstrate that our a...
Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cam...
—The hidden knowledge in social networks data can be regarded as an important resource for criminal investigations which can help finding the structure and organization of a crim...
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...