In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

The ability to 'sense'the social environment and thereby to understand the thoughts and
actions of others allows humans to fit into their social worlds, communicate and cooperate …

Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face
both an increasing frequency and an increasing intensity of natural disasters resulting from …

Individual's decisions, from what product to buy to whether to engage in risky behavior, often
depend on the choices, behaviors, or states of other people. People, however, rarely have …

Network scientists have shown that there is great value in studying pairwise interactions
between components in a system. From a linear algebra point of view, this involves defining …

Information flow during catastrophic events is a critical aspect of disaster management.
Modern communication platforms, in particular online social networks, provide an …

The rise of the internet and mobile telecommunications has created the possibility of using
large datasets to understand behavior at unprecedented levels of temporal and geographic …

Measuring sentiment in social media text has become an important practice in studying
emotions at the macroscopic level. However, this approach can suffer from methodological …

The friendship paradox states that your friends have on average more friends than you have.
Does the paradox “hold” for other individual characteristics like income or happiness? To …

Feld's friendship paradox states that" your friends have more friends than you, on average."
This paradox arises because extremely popular people, despite being rare, are …