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Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?
Data show that the relative change in page views to the general Wikipedia page on…
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Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction
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While these interactions are less common, they strongly affect people’s psychological well-being, physical health, and…
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Sexism Typology: Literature Review
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Drawing on the rich history of gender studies in the social sciences, coupling it with…
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P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.
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We need to make standards for interpreting p-values more stringent, and also improve transparency in…
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Topic modelling content from the “Everyday Sexism” project: what’s it all about?
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How does the topic modelling algorithm ‘discover’ the topics within the context of everyday sexism?
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Creating a semantic map of sexism worldwide: topic modelling of content from the “Everyday Sexism” project
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What are the most common types of sexism globally, and (how) do they relate to…
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Using Wikipedia as PR is a problem, but our lack of a critical eye is worse
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That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us – our lack…
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Wikipedia sockpuppetry: linking accounts to real people is pure speculation
Conservative chairman Grant Shapps is accused of sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, but this former Wikipedia admin…
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Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics
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Although some topics are globally debated, like religion and politics, there are many topics which…
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The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive modelling
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There are very interesting examples of using big data to make predictions about disease outbreaks,…