Torn: A Social Media Drama over the Aziz Ansari Scandal

Scandal Potential How political context and news congestion affect the president’s vulnerability to media scandal

Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. In this article, I provide a theoretical argument for two independent ...

Health Monitoring on Social Media over Time

Social media has become a major source for analyzing all aspects of daily life. Thanks to dedicated latent topic analysis methods such as the Ailment Topic Aspect Model (ATAM), public health can now be observed on Twitter. In this work, we are interested in monitoring people’s health over time. Recently, Temporal-LDA (TM–LDA) was proposed for efficiently modeling general-purpose topic transitio...

Ali Ansari

The primary education sector in Pakistan faces many challenges relating to access to education and quality of resources. This paper evaluates the Educational Voucher Scheme (EVS) in Lahore, Pakistan aimed at increasing access to primary schooling for low income families residing in the underdeveloped areas of Lahore by using the four criteria for evaluating privatization plans in education outl...

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BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data

The demonstration of a benchmark, named as BSMA, for Benchmarking Social Media Analytics, is introduced in this paper. BSMA is designed to benchmark data management systems supporting analytical queries over social media. It is di↵erent to existing benchmarks in that: 1) Both real-life data and a synthetic data generator are provided. The reallife dataset contains a social network of 1.6 millio...