Social media and the social sciences: How researchers employ Big Data analytics

“Social Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics & Machine-Learning”

Citizenship, Social Media, and Big Data: Current and Future Research in the Social Sciences

This special issue of the Social Science Computer Review provides a sample of the latest strategies employing large data sets in social media and political communication research. The proliferation of information communication technologies, social media, and the Internet, alongside the ubiquity of high-performance computing and storage technologies, has ushered in the era of computational socia...

Exploiting Social Judgements in Big Data Analytics

Social judgements like comments, reviews, discussions, or ratings have become a ubiquitous component of most Web applications, especially in the e-commerce domain. Now, a central challenge is using these judgements to improve the user experience by offering new query paradigms or better data analytics. Recommender systems have already demonstrated how ratings can be effectively used towards tha...

Big Data Analytics for Social Networks

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Social Media Predictive Analytics

The recent explosion of social media services like Twitter, Google+ and Facebook has led to an interest in social media predictive analytics – automatically inferring hidden information from the large amounts of freely available content. It has a number of applications, including: online targeted advertising, personalized marketing, large-scale passive polling and real-time live polling, person...