Over the past few days, I've had the pleasure of finally downloading /u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix's dataset posted to reddit: Nearly all of the comments ever posted on Reddit. It takes about 12 hours to download the data via the torrent link, and about 16
Elizabeth Dubois and I just did a workshop covering largely her method of "trace interviews" that she has pioneered alongside Heather Ford - and I joined in to talk about bridging the gap between quantitative analysis of human social networks, and how we as researchers can bring this
How do you interact with news? Do you read in the morning, or save it until right before bed? In my case, I apparently habitually read articles late into the night. I usually read things on medium, Wikipedia, The New York Times, and the Atlantic - thank god, Buzzfeed does
From my talk at CSSS15 at Northwestern about the role of initial geographic diffusion of a viral cascade and the impact that has on the ultimate popularity of a topic. For a rough draft of the paper on this topic, click below information_cascadesinformation_cascades.pdf385 KBdownload-circle
A talk that was to be given at SUNBELT XXXV - unfortunately multiple situations conspired to prevent me from showing this research, but someday! For the time being, however, here's the slides from that talk. For a rough draft paper on the topic, please see below outrage_modelingoutrage_
Hear an interview with me and Robin Young on WBUR's Here and Now - we talk about #TheDress, Internet Outrage or Public Shame, and how content goes viral.
In mathematics, an identity function is one which satisfies a seemingly terribly boring equation: f(x) = x Right? Super boring. Given some input x, we want the function to return the exact same value. An identity function gets really interesting when the equation looks more like this, though: f(???) = x
A Gephi tutorial presented to students at Northeastern. To get all the data required to run along the tutorial, click here.
This study compares six metrics commonly used to identify influential players in two of Canada’s largest political Twitter communities based on the users, and ranking order of users, identified by each metric. All tweets containing the hashtag #CPC, representing the Conservative Party of Canada (government), and #NDP, representing the
Studies of lobbying in North America have tended to focus largely on activities and strategies of interest groups and their lobbyists in American politics. However, the lax reporting requirements of the Lobbying Disclosure Act limit scholars’ ability to systematically address detailed questions about these groups behavior and their strategic environments
Cornelius Puschmann and I contributed a chapter to the book "Twitter And Society" - our chapter is "Data Collection on Twitter" and is a dense teardown of all the methodological options available to researchers looking at Twitter written from the perspective of a researcher. Take a
On March 12th, 2013, Mark Graham (my former boss at Oxford Internet Institute and permanent friend for life), Monica Stephens, and Catherine D’Ignazio participated as a panel at South by Southwest 2013. There, we discussed the importance of geolocation data, the potential future of it, and ramifications of an